Hughes Electronics - DIRECTV

Beautifully engraved Certificate from the Hughes Electronics . This historic document was printed by the American Banknote Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of a high tech scene of satellites, space and people working in a network operations center. This item has the printed signatures of the company's officers including John Smith as Chairman.




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Hughes Electronics Corporation is the world's leading provider of digital television entertainment, broadband services, satellite-based private business networks, and global video and data broadcasting. A global company with 2001 revenues of $8.3 billion, HUGHES is comprised of four main units.

DIRECTV, Inc. is the United States' leading provider of digital quality direct-to-home television entertainment programming. Hughes also provides DIRECTV in Latin America through the DIRECTV Latin America partnership. Worldwide, over 12 million customers received programming from a DIRECTV service at year-end 2001.

PanAmSat Corporation (NASDAQ:SPOT) is the world's leading provider of commercial satellite services, operating a global fleet of 21 satellites. Hughes owns 81% of PanAmSat.

Hughes Network Systems is the world's leading supplier of satellite-based private business networks with a market share of more than 50%. It is also a leading producer of set-top receivers for DIRECTV and provides the DIRECWAY satellite-based Internet access service.