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EchoStar’s Hughes Files for Bankruptcy

EchoStar lost 118,000 mobile subscribers in the second quarter

Jake Neenan

Jake Neenan

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EchoStar’s Hughes Files for Bankruptcy
Photo of EchoStar CEO Charlie Ergen in 2010 from Paul Sakuma/AP

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3, 2026 – EchoStar’s broadband satellite unit, Hughes Satellite Systems, filed for bankruptcy Monday.

It’s the third EchoStar subsidiary to go bankrupt this summer. Dish Wireless, which operated the company’s mobile network, and Dish DBS, EchoStar’s pay-TV unit, both filed for bankruptcy in June.

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