Hughes Receives Euroconsult's 2008 Award for Broadband Satellite Operator of the Year

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Hughes Receives Euroconsult's 2008 Award for Broadband Satellite Operator of the Year

Euroconsult Honors Company for the Development and Launch of the
SPACEWAY™ 3 System

Germantown, Md., September 10, 2008 — Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), the global leader in broadband satellite network solutions and services, today announced that it has received Euroconsult's 2008 Award as Broadband Satellite Operator of the Year for the “Best Development of a Broadband Satellite System” in recognition of the company's innovative Ka-band satellite system, SPACEWAY 3. Pradman Kaul, chairman and CEO of Hughes, accepted the award earlier today at a luncheon ceremony held at the Hotel Westin in Paris, France during the 2008 World Summit for Satellite Financing.

“On behalf of the entire Hughes team, I am extremely proud to receive this prestigious award from Euroconsult,” said Mr. Kaul. “With the launch of SPACEWAY 3 last year and commercial service this April, our company has entered a new era as a fully integrated satellite service provider—bringing higher speeds, greater capacity, and bandwidth-on-demand services to our rapidly growing base of HughesNet^® customers throughout North America.”

The award for Broadband Satellite Operator of the Year is one in a series of Euroconsult's 2008 Awards for Excellence in Satellite Management. The awards are based on an objective assessment of specific performance indicators by a jury of experts from Satellite Finance, Space News, and Euroconsult. As part of the awards process, a selection of companies was assessed and benchmarked on performance and were then assessed through a second round of qualitative criteria.

About Hughes Network Systems

Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) is the global leader in providing broadband satellite networks and services for large enterprises, governments, small businesses, and consumers. HughesNet encompasses all broadband solutions and managed services from Hughes, bridging the best of satellite and terrestrial technologies. Its broadband satellite products are based on global standards approved by the TIA, ETSI, and ITU standards organizations, including IPoS/DVB-S2, RSM-A and GMR-1. To date, Hughes has shipped more than 1.5 million systems to customers in over 100 countries. Headquartered outside Washington, D.C., in Germantown, Maryland, USA, Hughes maintains sales and support offices worldwide. Hughes is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hughes Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: HUGH). For additional information, please visit www.hughes.com .