With Dish transaction, EchoStar is now Hughes Network Systems and little else

by Peter B. de Selding

PARIS — EchoStar is selling almost all its EchoStar Satellite Services (ESS) business to sister company Dish Network in a transaction that formalizes what has been true for some time: EchoStar is now Hughes Network Systems and little else.

EchoStar and Dish on May 20 said all the ESS satellite assets and tracking, telemetry and command services that now are used for Dish Networks’ direct-broadcast television service will be transferred to Dish.

In return, Echostar shareholders will receive 22.9 million . . .

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