Hughes may can DirecWay


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If this does happen, many rural users will return to the dreadings of dialup or be forced to upgrade to fiber optic lines such as T1s, etc.

For alot of people, that's just not possible..

"According to a report in yesterday's Wall Street Journal, Hughes may be scrapping its Direcway satellite internet access system. The service at the moment has 150,000 subscribers but is not doing well, according to a Hughes Spokesman. "The challenge for DirecWay is the upfront hardware costs and the monthly service charges make it tough for us to get to a price point that's competitive with cable and DSL "

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So from what it looks like, I may adivse you all to head on over to the real ebay site and starting selling your equipment. It appears Hughes is really aiming to crush this year's christmas, as earlier DirecTV (parent company HNS) went out of business. Let's all hope this doesn't happen to DirecWay.

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Hughes this afternoon announced that the company will close the doors of DIRECTV Broadband, migrating existing customers to other providers over the next ninety days. According to the release, the company eliminated half of its 400 employees today, but failed to count their many contract workers (who won't be seeing severance packages). We've received multiple e-mails from employees who had no idea anything was wrong until they lost their jobs at 11am PST today (the entire Beaverton, OR call center staff was eliminated).

source: BroadbandReports.com

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