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EchoStar Places $1.5 Billion In Senior Notes

by Staff Writers
Englewood CO (SPX) Jan 24, 2006
EchoStar Communications has announced that its subsidiary, EchoStar DBS Corporation, has priced an offering of $1.5 billion aggregate principal amount of senior debt securities.

The debt securities will be issued as 7-1/8% Senior Notes due 2016. The proceeds of the offering will be used to redeem EchoStar DBS Corporation's outstanding 9-1/8% Senior Notes due 2009 as well as for other general corporate purposes.

The sale of the Notes is expected to close on Feb. 2, 2006, subject to customary conditions.

EchoStar DBS Corporation placed the Notes in a private transaction under Rule 144A under the Securities Act. The Notes have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the securities laws of any other jurisdiction and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration requirements.

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