Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) has been presented with the 2009 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Market Leadership. The award was given in recognition of the company’s continuing leadership in the consumer satellite broadband industry, highlighted by its market-winning HughesNet® high-speed Internet service plans and value-added applications. “Hughes has clearly proven the profitability of the consumer satellite broadband business, thereby significantly expanding the VSAT industry’s addressable market beyond  enterprise networking which it pioneered in the 1980’s,” said Gina Villanueva, research analyst with Frost & Sullivan. “With its wide range of HughesNet service plans and extensive customer care, Hughes is well positioned to at least maintain or increase its dominant position in the broadband satellite market.” The HughesNet consumer service continues to achieve impressive growth with record achievements in the second quarter of 2009. Subscriber gross additions were approximately 50,000, an increase of 35% over the second quarter of 2008 and net additions were 18,000 for a growth of 103% over the same period in 2008. Additionally, service revenue increased by 18% over the second quarter of 2008. The total number of subscribers is now over 470,000.