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5
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New Business Opportunities
From time to time we evaluate opportunities for strategic investments or acquisitions that may complement our
current services and products, enhance our technical capabilities, improve or sustain our competitive position, or
otherwise offer growth opportunities. We may make investments in or partner with others to expand our business
into mobile and portable video, data and voice services.
In 2008, we paid $712 million to acquire certain 700 MHz wireless licenses, which were granted to us by the FCC in
February 2009. To commercialize these licenses and satisfy FCC build-out requirements, we will be required to
make significant additional investments or partner with others. Depending on the nature and scope of such
commercialization and build-out, any such investment or partnership could vary significantly. Part or all of our
licenses may be terminated for failure to satisfy FCC build-out requirements. We are currently performing a market
test to evaluate different technologies and consumer acceptance.
SATELLITES
Most of our programming is currently delivered using DBS satellites. We continue to explore opportunities to expand
our available satellite capacity through the use of other available spectrum. Increasing our available spectrum is
particularly important as more bandwidth intensive HD programming is produced and to address new video and data
applications consumers may desire in the future. We currently utilize satellites in geostationary orbit approximately
22,300 miles above the equator detailed in the table below.
Original
Degree Useful
Launch Orbital Life Lease Term
Satellites Date Location (Years) (Years)
Owned:
EchoStar I (1).................................. December 1995 77 12
EchoStar VII .................................. February 2002 119 12
EchoStar X...................................... February 2006 110 12
EchoStar XI.................................... July 2008 110 12
EchoStar XIV.................................. March 2010 119 15
EchoStar XV................................... July 2010 61.5 15
Leased from EchoStar:
EchoStar VI (1)............................... July 2000 77 12
EchoStar VIII (1)(2)....................... August 2002 77 12
EchoStar IX (1)(2)(3)..................... August 2003 121 12
EchoStar XII (1)............................. July 2003 61.5 10
Nimiq 5 (1)(2)................................. September 2009 72.7 10 10
Leased from Other Third Party:
Anik F3 .......................................... April 2007 118.7 15 15
Ciel II.............................................. December 2008 129 10 10
Under Construction:
Leased from EchoStar:
QuetzSat-1 ..................................... Late 2011 77 10 10
EchoStar XVI.................................. 2012 61.5 10 10
(1) See Note 17 in the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 15 of this Annual Report on Form
10-K for further discussion of our Related Party Agreements.
(2) We lease a portion of the capacity on these satellites.
(3) Leased on a month to month basis.