Dish Will Add iSky Fare.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

Multichannel News, April, 2000 by HOGAN, MONICA

EchoStar Communications Corp. has made a $50 million investment in iSKY Inc., which plans to deliver a two-way broadband service via Ka-band satellite late next year. The companies said they would market a bundled video and data service, incorporating EchoStar's Dish Network programming, to customers with a single satellite dish.

The primary targets for satellite-based broadband services are rural households beyond the reach of cable-modem and digital-subscriber-line services. "Most of us at iSKY came from the terrestrial world of cable modems and DSL," iSKY CEO Tom Moore said last week at the SkyForum conference in New York. "We think those [services] will be wicked cool, but there will be 25 to 30 million homes that won't have access to those...

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