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Yabutz.com Introduces HughesNet Satellite Internet Service At Pocono Raceway Bluegrass Festival

Broadband Satellite Internet Service Ideal for Rural Consumers and Businesses

Boston, Ma. (July 23, 2009)-Yabutz.com, a search engine within the motorsports racing industry, is introducing HughesNet® broadband satellite Internet service to its mostly rural professional and amateur motorsports drivers, teams, and fans at a bluegrass concert at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania the first weekend in August. HughesNet is the leading broadband satellite Internet service in North America and is ideal for rural and geographically hard-to-reach customers who don’t have broadband access to the Internet through landline services such as cable and DSL.

HughesNet, a service of Hughes Network Systems, LLC (Hughes), is a full-featured, high-speed Internet service that’s available throughout the contiguous United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Because HughesNet delivers high-speed Internet over satellite, consumer and business subscribers enjoy instant access to information, no matter where they are located as long as they have a clear view of the southern sky.

According to Andrew Kaplan, Yabutz.com outside marketing advisor, "Given that Yabutz' audience—race teams—is based mostly in rural areas in North America, acting as a referral partner for HughesNet Internet services was a natural for us. And with Yabutz sponsoring bluegrass concerts at Pocono Raceway, introducing HughesNet to Pennsylvania rural customers in particular also was a natural."

Billed as 'The Music of the Mountains,' Pocono Raceway will play host to a weekend of bluegrass prior to the August 2nd Pennsylvania 500, a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event. The two days of concerts, July 31 and August 1, will feature top bluegrass recording artists with an estimated infield audience of nearly 50,000.

In addition to the concerts, for online fans, a thirty minute 'red-carpet' event will be broadcast live on the Internet. A worldwide, online audience estimated at thousands will watch NASCAR and ARCA stars interviewed as they walk the 'carpet' to the concerts' VIP seating section. Visit yabutz.com/bluegrass for information.

"What better venue to introduce HughesNet satellite Internet service than at Pocono Raceway at a bluegrass festival attended by fans from rural America that are hard pressed to receive broadband Internet services," said Allen McCabe, assistant vice president of Channel Sales at Hughes. "Hughes is proud to be a part of this exciting fan event."

About Hughes Network Systems
Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) is the global leader in providing broadband satellite networks and services for large enterprises, governments, small businesses, and consumers. HughesNet encompasses all broadband solutions and managed services from Hughes, bridging the best of satellite and terrestrial technologies. Its broadband satellite products are based on global standards approved by the TIA, ETSI and ITU standards organizations, including IPoS, RSM-A, and GMR-1. To date, Hughes has shipped more than 1.9 million systems to customers in over 100 countries.

Headquartered outside Washington, D.C., in Germantown, Maryland, USA, Hughes maintains sales and support offices worldwide. Hughes is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hughes Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: HUGH). For additional information, please visit www.hughes.com. Hughes and HughesNet are registered trademarks of Hughes Network Systems, LLC.

About Yabutz
Yabutz provides professional and amateur motorsports drivers, teams and parts-procurement staffs within the racing industry a search engine for racing parts, shop equipment, tools and education. Yabutz is not a "swap-meet" for used parts, nor a classified for selling unwanted stuff but rather a search tool dedicated exclusively to worldwide motorsports racing, its competitors and suppliers. Visit www.yabutz.com.