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Hughes Network Systems Europe Expands Network Provided to Telefonica Data Dedicated hub and 50 additional remote sites added to CLH network

Hughes Network Systems Europe (HNSE), Europe's leading provider of broadband satellite solutions, announced today that it is upgrading an existing HNS VSAT (very small aperture terminal) satellite network provided to Telefonica Data, a leading Spanish telecommunications services provider. HNS will provide Telefonica Data with a new VSAT hub that supports the PES 5000T satellite terminal and 80 PES 5000 remote terminals and 110 PES8000 (these will be replace for PES5000 in the next years).

Since 1992, Telefonica has been meeting the satellite communication needs of CLH, an energy company, through a shared hub supplied by HNS and PES 8000 remote terminals. The upgraded network provides CLH with a fully dedicated hub that allows the company to improve the level of performance of the existing platform. Telefonica Data will operate the hub and network on behalf of CLH. CLH utilizes the network to run SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisitions) applications for remote pipeline monitoring.

"Our decision to invest in a satellite communication network solution eleven years ago has helped our company control our infrastructures throughout Spain. We are able to rely on the service Telefonica Data provides us, as well as the experience of HNS in the retail and petroleum industries to make our business stronger," said CLH executive.

"HNS designs its satellite networks to be easily upgradeable and expandable, giving companies the flexibility to invest in a single communications platform that has the ability to grow with their business," said Luigi Pagni, Hughes Network Systems Europe vice president. "Working closely with companies like Telefonica Data, HNS is able to deliver exactly what a company needs when they need it."

"We have a long standing relationship with HNS," said Beatriz Escat, International Services vice president of Telefonica Data. "The performance over the years of the network supplied by HNS made it easy to choose Hughes to meet the expanded needs of our customer, CLH"

Installation is scheduled to be complete by April 2003.

About Hughes Network Systems

Hughes Network Systems, Inc. (HNS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hughes Electronics Corporation (HUGHES), is the world's leading provider of broadband satellite network solutions for businesses and consumers, with more than 500,000 systems ordered or shipped to customers in 85 countries. HNS pioneered the development of high-speed satellite Internet access services, which it markets globally under the DIRECWAY® brand. In addition, HNS is a leading manufacturer of DIRECTV® satellite television receivers, having shipped more than 10 million systems to date.

Headquartered outside Washington, D.C., in Germantown, Maryland, USA, HNS maintains sales and support offices worldwide. The earnings of HUGHES are used to calculate the earnings attributable to the General Motors Class H common stock (NYSE:GMH). To learn more about HNS, please visit www.hns.com.

About Hughes Network Systems Europe

Hughes Network Systems Europe (HNSE) is Hughes Network Systems, Inc.'s (HNS) operating and sales organization for the European market. HNSE has facilities in Italy, the United Kingdom, Germany, and the Czech Republic. HNSE provides DIRECWAY® broadband satellite services across Europe, utilizing its satellite hub earth stations and network operations centers in Griesheim, Germany and Milton Keynes, UK. HNSE designs, develops, installs and maintains a wide variety of network service solutions such as broadband Internet access, multicast video distribution, interactive distance learning and private broadband networks for the enterprise. HNSE has shipped or installed more than 33,000 terminals throughout Europe with approximately 14,000 terminals on order. To learn more about HNSE, please visit www.hnseu.com.

About Telefonica Data

Telefonica Data, a subsidiary of the Telefonica Group, is a leading supplier of global telecommunications services for companies. Telefonica Data is currently developing businesses in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Puerto Rico and other Latin American countries and the United States. Telefonica Data is also present in Spain and other European countries such as Italy, UK and Germany. To learn more about Telefonica Data, please visit www.telefonica-data.com.

About CLH

CLH is the company to supervise and control the pipes network in Spain. CLH supply all petrol companies implant in Spain, as REPSOL, BP, CEPSA, and to special customer as Ports and Airports.

HUGHES, Hughes Network Systems, and DIRECWAY are trademarks of Hughes Electronics Corporation. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.



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