Charlie Ergen (L) chairman and CEO of Echostar, and Eddy Hartenstein,
chairman and CEO of DirecTV, smile before the start of a CEO roundtable
on satellite television at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas
January 9, 2002. A proposed $25.8 billion merger of the two companies
would give the new company a virtual monopoly of the satellite
television market, critics say. REUTERS/Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun

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