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Hughes Looking At Rural Internet

Ellen McCarthy writes in The Washington Post:

Hughes Network Systems LLC, a Germantown satellite service company trying to reposition itself after the sale of its DirecTV satellite television business, plans to announce a campaign today aimed at selling Internet access to small businesses and consumers in rural parts of the country.

The Hughes Communications Inc. subsidiary, which has 1,500 employees, already has about 275,000 customers in what it considers "underserved" parts of the country. But after a recent restructuring, Hughes officials say they see the company's future more tightly tied to providing Internet access, Web sites and other services to the estimated 10 million to 15 million households without access to a high-speed broadband connection.

posted by Fergie @ 3/26/2006 06:17:00 PM