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Pakapab
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Re: "Jupiter" launch date/time set

Just curious, does anyone have any data on how many new customers Viasat brought on with exede? Also, do you all think Hughes plans on phasing out the older Ku systems and concentrating on an all Ka service, as it would seem to be less expensive for Hughes per customer on the Ka systems.

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said by Pakapab:

Just curious, does anyone have any data on how many new customers Viasat brought on with exede? Also, do you all think Hughes plans on phasing out the older Ku systems and concentrating on an all Ka service, as it would seem to be less expensive for Hughes per customer on the Ka systems.

On the second part, no chance that they will phase out Ku. Shrink? Yes, they've been shrinking Ku service for the past 4 years and probably it will get much smaller.

The reason it won't go away is that it is the only service that is North-America mobile, plus it is the standard service for gas stations and mini-marts everywhere.
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I am sure Viasat will be releasing those numbers sometime over the next couple of months.

Hard to determine how many "new" customers they have brought on board. I did hear the upgrades of existing Wildblue customers to Exede occurred a lot quicker than what was originally promised. So perhaps there was not the "rush" of new subscribers that Viasat initially expected.
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said by Pakapab:

Just curious, does anyone have any data on how many new customers Viasat brought on with exede?

May 17

ViaSat Fiscal 2012 Year-End Earnings Conference Call May 17

CARLSBAD, Calif., May 10, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- ViaSat Inc. (Nasdaq:VSAT) will host a conference call on Thursday, May 17, 2012 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time to discuss fourth quarter and year-end financial results for fiscal year 2012. The dial-in number is (877) 640-9809 in the U.S. and (914) 495-8528 internationally. Listeners can also access the conference call webcast and other material financial information discussed on the conference call in the Investor Relations section of the ViaSat website at investors.viasat.com. The call will be archived and available on that site for approximately one month immediately following the conference call.

»www.sacbee.com/2012/05/1 ··· ngs.html
DrStrangLov

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said by Pakapab:

Just curious, does anyone have any data on how many new customers Viasat brought on with exede?

Here's the info requested: »www.utsandiego.com/news/ ··· xpenses/

The company hooked up 49,000 subscribers – double the number signed up the quarter before the launch of the Exede service.

Bottlenecks in installations prevented the company from hooking up more subscribers, said Chief Executive Mark Dankberg.

“The demand we saw upon service introduction was really good,” Dankberg said. “It ramped really fast, and the fulfillment (problem) was based on the ability to schedule install appointments after orders.”

Exede wasn’t fully available for the entire quarter.
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The question was "new customers".

Of the 49,000 installs, about 7100 installs were upgrades. That would make about 42,000 new customers. There is speculation this is only new customers that signed up directly with Viasat, not through Dish or the NRTC.

However, the net increase in customer accounts (which is the bottom line) was just 8000. This is after upgrades, disconnects, etc.