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To: John Rieman who wrote (37709)	12/9/1998 12:22:00 PM
From: J Fieb	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

This sounds really good John. Here is another report on the deal.......Commentary EchoStar Comes Out Shining That Linux/set top co. must be a current small fish. Not GIC, SFA,DIVI,SONY,SUNW,webtv. And if they get behind it may be too late. As far as I can tell. Charlie Ergen gets just about everything he wanted in the merger talks with News Corp., without losing control of his company. First, EchoStar, News Corp. and MCI WorldCom announced an agreement providing EchoStar with satellite assets owned by the other two. Included in the purchase: a digital satellite broadcasting license, two new Loral satellites, a direct broadcast uplink center in Arizona, a worldwide license to make and sell settop boxes, a three-year agreement to re-broadcast Fox Network local signals back into their own markets, and a promise to carry the Fox News Channel on the DISH Network. This is a very big deal for EchoStar CEO Charlie Ergen, who clashed with News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch last year during their companies' failed merger talks, theoretically on the issue of whose encryption standards would prevail. Ergen filed a $5 billion suit at the time, which also goes away when this agreement closes. The upshot: Ergen gets just about everything he wanted in the original merger talks, without losing control of his company. The most interesting fine print: in addition to 500 channels on a national footprint, he plans to offer Internet access. Which brings us to … … California startup Tachyon Communications, which claims to have found a technique for expanding satellite transponder capacity for some models from 400 sources (data streams) to about 3,000, thereby lowering costs to rural world users for existing bird use. Bandwidth under this system would be 64 kps up, 500 kps down, with fees ranging from $500 to $2,000 per month after a $2,500 installation fee. Rollout for the United States and Mexico is set for Jan DIVI, anything to worry about with this Tachyon startup?