HughesNet Continues to See Subscriber Losses, US Capacity Constraints

EchoStar's HughesNet satellite broadband service ended the company's most-recent quarter with 1.51 million subscribers in the U.S. and Latin America, down 32,000 from the previous quarter, with ongoing capacity constraints, Hughes Network Systems President Pradman Kaul said Tuesday as EchoStar announced its Q3 2021 results. EchoStar Satellite Services President Anders Johnson said its Jupiter 3 broadband satellite will launch in the second half of 2022. He said EchoStar and Dish Network are jointly evaluating how some Dish U.S. licenses for AWS-4 and S-band spectrum might be used in meshing EchoStar's services internationally with Dish's planned U.S. terrestrial network. EchoStar said total revenue for the quarter was $504.7 million, up $31.2 million year over year.