GERMANTOWN, Maryland and KUWAIT, September 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Hughes Technology Enables Launch of Residential Internet Services in
the Arabian Gulf

Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), the world's leading provider of
broadband satellite network solutions and services, and Gulfsat
Communications Company (Gulfsat), a leading satellite service and solutions
provider in the Middle East and North Africa, today announced that Gulfsat
has purchased an HN System Network Operations Center (NOC). The NOC was
installed at the Globecomm Systems, Inc. (GSI) teleport in Hauppauge, New
York where it will be used to provide a new broadband residential Internet
access service, "Shownet Two-Way Service," that Gulfsat is launching in the
Gulf region in the 4th quarter of 2007.

Mustafa Murad, chief operating officer at Gulfsat, said, "We are very
pleased to be using the Hughes broadband satellite platform to provide our
new, two-way residential Internet service and to have the first DVB-S2 NOC
serving the residential market in the Gulf region." Mr. Murad added, "One of
the key factors in selecting Hughes was their proven experience with over
170,000 DVB-S2/ACM capable terminals shipped worldwide as of February 2007.
The Hughes implementation of DVB-S2 allows us to provide a very efficient and
cost-effective service to our customers with improved satellite Internet
browsing and download performance at a level that traditional landline
service cannot match."

The HN platform employs the most efficient implementation of the DVB-S2
industry standard including Adaptive Coding and Modulation (ACM), and is
fully compliant with IPoS (IP over Satellite), the first global satellite
industry standard approved by TIA in North America, and ETSI and ITU in
Europe

"We are proud to have been selected by Gulfsat to deliver our HN system
solution. They are a valued customer of Hughes and have been providing
excellent broadband satellite services to their customers in the Middle East
and North Africa. It is very exciting to see them expand their suite of
services to address new markets such as residential broadband," said Soheil
Mehrabanzad, assistant vice president and regional manager, MEA, for Hughes.

By utilizing the Eutelsat Atlantic Bird 2, one of the most powerful
satellites covering the Arabian Gulf, together with the advanced Hughes NOC
operating at GSI's carrier-class facility in New York, Gulfsat's Shownet
Two-Way Service will represent the latest generation of high-speed Internet
access for customers in the Middle East.

For the first time in the region, Shownet Two-Way will be introducing
consumption-based packages with speeds up to 2Mbps, enabled by integrated
acceleration and spoofing techniques on the Hughes platform along with a new
billing system.

About Gulfsat Communications

Established in 1995 in partnership with the Ministry of Communications,
Kuwait, Gulfsat Communications is one of the world leaders in the satellite
communications services industry. Gulfsat designs, integrates, installs, and
provides advanced satellite networking for business and government
organizations.

Gulfsat brings the benefits of VSAT (very small aperture terminal)
satellite technology to provide cost-effective, advanced communications
solutions to the region. Gulfsat, owners of one of the major teleport
facilities in the world located in Kuwait, has pioneered many of the
technologies currently in use today and suitably adapts them according to
customer needs and potential growth of the network in the future.

Gulfsat is a subsidiary of United Networks, Kuwait, the region's leading
provider of solutions and services in the communications and media sectors
offering convergent communications solutions that optimize and support
real-time delivery channels for voice, video and data.

About Hughes Network Systems

Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) is the global leader in providing
broadband satellite networks and services for large enterprises, governments,
small businesses, and consumers. HughesNet(R) encompasses all broadband
solutions and managed services from Hughes, bridging the best of satellite
and terrestrial technologies. Hughes has shipped more than 1.2 million
systems to customers in over 100 countries. Its broadband satellite products
are based on the IPoS (IP over Satellite) global standard, approved by the
TIA, ETSI, and ITU standards organizations.

Headquartered outside Washington, D.C., in Germantown, Maryland, USA,
Hughes maintains sales and support offices worldwide. Hughes is a wholly
owned subsidiary of Hughes Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: HUGH). For
additional information, please visit http://www.hughes.com .

(C)2007 Hughes Network Systems, LLC. Hughes and HughesNet are registered
trademarks of Hughes Network Systems, LLC.

Web site: http://www.hughes.com