TerreStar Networks was a Reston, Virginia-based company that operated integrated satellite and terrestrial telecommunications systems.
TerreStar-1 with the plan of providing mobile voice, messaging and data communications services to North America.
On January 14, 2010, TerreStar announced that the Federal Communications Commission had approved the company's deployment of a terrestrial wireless network using the same S-band frequencies used by TerreStar-1.
[3] In October 2010, TerreStar filed for a "prepackaged" bankruptcy, led by its largest secured creditor, EchoStar.
[5][6] After successfully bidding $1.375 billion for the acquisition of the TerreStar-1 satellite in a bankruptcy-court auction,[7] Dish Network on August 22, 2011, asked the Federal Communications Commission to let the company utilize the wireless spectrum of TerreStar to offer its own wireless broadband service.