Top Honors
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Hughes has been honored this year with multiple awards in recognition of its business success and innovation. Here are a few of the most recent corporate honors.
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Economic Development Advancement
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Montgomery County, Maryland’s Workforce Investment Board and Department of Economic Development recently recognized Hughes with its Economic Development Advancement Award for 2009. The Economic Development Advancement Award is presented to an individual or employer in Montgomery County who has consistently made economic development and workforce development a priority.
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Pioneering an Industry
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Hughes was recently presented with the 2009 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Market Leadership. The award was given in recognition of the company’s continuing leadership in the consumer satellite broadband industry, highlighted by its market-winning HughesNet® high-speed Internet service plans and value-added applications.
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“Hughes has clearly proven the profitability of the consumer satellite broadband business, thereby significantly expanding the VSAT industry’s addressable market beyond enterprise networking which it pioneered in the 1980s,” said Gina Villanueva, research analyst with Frost & Sullivan.
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Exceptional Maryland Company
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Hughes was also selected as a recipient of The Gazette of Politics and Business Exceptional 53 Award. The awards program acknowledges the top 53 businesses and organizations in Maryland based on criteria that include the recipient company’s annual revenue and employee growth, as well as noteworthy product or service innovations, community service efforts, and how the companies portray themselves as “good places to work.”
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Distance Learning Project in Amazon Takes WISE Award
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Broadband satellite technology is widely recognized as one of the most significant enablers of distance learning programs—even in the most remote locations such as the Amazon region of Brazil. Hughes do Brasil was recently honored with the WISE Award for a distance learning project provided to the Education and Quality of Teaching Department of the State of Amazonas (SEDUC-AM). The WISE Award (World Innovation Summit for Education), granted by the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, recognizes the world’s best initiatives in the area of education, showcasing pioneering projects that foster distinctive, cross-educational collaboration.
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The Brazilian project provides interactive distant learning over satellite to more than 20,000 students in 700 classrooms across 300 schools in the State of Amazonas, and was one of six laureates chosen from this year’s 588 entries. It utilizes the nationwide HughesNet broadband satellite service along with IPTV (television over the IP protocol) software to transmit classes conducted daily from the media center in the state capital, Manaus, to students in rural communities. Though they may be hundreds of miles apart, teachers and students can interact as if they were in the same location. Future plans call for expanding the number of classrooms to 1,000—bringing the benefits of distance education to more than 25,000 students in Amazonas. Image View 15 Image View Text Block Jim Muir of Hughes receives the award from Montgomery Council Member Phil Andrews and County Executive Isiah Leggett. Image View Text Block Tom McElroy of Hughes accepts The Gazette of Politics and Business Exceptional 53 Award. BLUE FOOTER
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