Hughes Network Systems, LLC has a new agreement with TerreStar Networks Inc. This association will find Hughes designing, developing and supplying a satellite chipset platform based on Universal mobile Telecommunications Services UMTS standards to enable wireless mobile devices to communicate via the satellite portion of TerreStar’s network. Dual-mode mobile devices will be able to operate seamlessly over both multi-generational wireless/satellite networks with support for advanced video and data services as well as voice. Hughes will license the technology to cell mobile handset and device manufacturers. This will allow them to integrated satellite-mode capabilities into their product lines—Germantown, Maryland


