Note 1. Organization and Business Activities Principal Business EchoStar Corporation (together with its subsidiaries is referred to as  EchoStar,  the  Company,   we,   us  and/or  our ) is a holding company that was organized in October 2007 as a corporation under the laws of the State of Nevada. Our Class A common stock is publicly traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol  SATS.  We are a global provider of satellite operations, video delivery solutions, and broadband satellite technologies and services for home and office, delivering innovative network technologies, managed services, and solutions for enterprises and governments. We currently operate in three business segments. · EchoStar Technologies   which designs, develops and distributes digital set-top boxes and related products and technology, primarily for satellite TV service providers, telecommunication and international cable companies and, with respect to Slingboxes, directly to consumers via retail outlets. Our EchoStar Technologies segment also provides digital broadcast operations including satellite uplinking/downlinking, transmission services, signal processing, conditional access management, and other services primarily to DISH Network Corporation and its subsidiaries ( DISH Network ). · Hughes   which provides satellite broadband Internet access to North American consumers and broadband network services and systems to the domestic and international enterprise markets. The Hughes segment also provides managed services to large enterprises and networking systems solutions to customers for mobile satellite and wireless backhaul systems. Hughes became a new segment as a result of our acquisition of Hughes Communications, Inc. and its subsidiaries ( Hughes Communications ) in June 2011 and our historical financial statements on and after June 9, 2011 give effect to the acquisition of Hughes Communications (the  Hughes Acquisition). See Note 15 for further discussion of Hughes Acquisition. · EchoStar Satellite Services   which us