EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ:SATS) Q1 2022 Earnings Conference Call May 5, 2022 11:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Terry Brown - Investor Relations

Hamid Akhavan - Chief Executive Officer and President

David Rayner - Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer

Pradman Kaul - President, Hughes

Dean Manson - General Counsel and Secretary

Ken Carroll - Executive Vice President, Corporate Development

Conference Call Participants

Chris Quilty - Quilty Analytics

Ric Prentiss - Raymond James

Caleb Henry - Quilty Analytics

Nitin Sacheti - Papyrus Capital

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by and welcome to EchoStar Corporation Conference Call for First Quarter 2022 Results. [Operator Instructions] Now, I would like to welcome Mr. Terry Brown. Sir, please go ahead.

Terry Brown

Thank you. Good morning, everybody and welcome to our earnings call for the first quarter of 2022. I am joined today by Hamid Akhavan, our CEO and President; David Rayner, COO and CFO; Pradman Kaul, President of Hughes; Dean Manson, General Counsel and Secretary; and Ken Carroll, EVP of Corporate Development.

As usual, we invite media to participate in a listen-only mode on the call and ask that you not identify participants or their firms in your report. We also do not allow audio recording, which we ask that you respect.

Let me now turn the call over to Dean for the Safe Harbor disclosure.

Dean Manson

Thank you, Terry. All statements we make during this call, other than statements of historical fact, constitute forward-looking statements made pursuant to the Safe Harbor provided by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause our actual results to be materially different from historical results and from any future results expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements.

For a list of those factors and risks, please refer to our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 filed on February 23, and our subsequent filings made with the SEC. All cautionary statements we make during the call should be understood as being applicable to any forward-looking statements we make wherever they appear. You should carefully consider the risks described in our reports and should not place any undue reliance on any forward-looking statements. We assume no responsibility for updating any forward-looking statements.

I will now turn the call over to Hamid.

Hamid Akhavan

Thank you, Dean and good day everyone. I am pleased to participate in my first EchoStar earnings call, and I look forward to interacting with many of you in the future.