Preferred Provider Agreement, Dated As of October 16, 2006

Exhibit 10.2

PREFERRED PROVIDER AGREEMENT dated as of October 16, 2006 entered into between Hughes Network Systems, LLC (" HNS" ) and Mobile Satellite Ventures LP (" MSV LP" ). RECITALS

WHEREAS , HNS is in the business of providing certain services and equipment to satellite communications and telecommunications businesses; and

WHEREAS , MSV LP expects to utilize such services in connection with its development and deployment of a next generation integrated satellite network with an ancillary terrestrial component.

NOW THEREFORE THIS AGREEMENT WITNESSES that in consideration of the sum of ten dollars paid by each party to the others, and certain agreements among the parent companies of HNS on the one hand and MSV LP, on the other, and other good and valuable consideration, mutually given and received, the parties agree as follows:

SECTION 1 1.1. Effective as of the date set forth above, MSV LP hereby grant preferred provider status to HNS for any i) services relating to systems engineering, development and manufacturing of the satellite radio access network (RAN), ii) provision of backhaul data service for providing connectivity to the terrestrial RAN, iii) development and manufacture of chipsets implementing the satellite and terrestrial air interface to be used in the MSV LP terminals and iv) the development and manufacture of fixed customer premise equipment which may be required by MSV LP (the " Subject Services" ), to the extent Hughes offers commercially competitive terms and conditions for the Subject Services as set forth in Section 2 of this Preferred Provider Agreement.

1.2. For greater certainty, the Subject Services do not include any telemetry, tracking and control services or any satellite procurement services, including without limitation, construct ...