Deepak Dutt | Vice President of Investor Relations |
Charlie Ergen | Chairman |
Mike Dugan | CEO |
Dave Rayner | COO and CFO |
Pradman Kaul | President of Hughes |
Anders Johnson | Chief Strategy Officer and President of EchoStar Satellite Services |
Joe Torres | Associate General Counsel |
Ric Prentiss | Raymond James |
Jason Bazinet | Citi |
Chris Quilty | Quilty Analytics |
Giles Thorne | Jefferies |
Arun Seshadri | Credit Suisse |
Walter Piecyk | BTIG |
Chuck Goldblum | Hurley Capital |
Good day, everybody and welcome to our earnings call for the second quarter of 2018. I'm joined today by Charlie Ergen, our Chairman; Mike Dugan, our CEO; Dave Rayner, COO and CFO; Pradman Kaul, President of Hughes; Anders Johnson, Chief Strategy Officer and President of EchoStar Satellite Services; and Joe Torres, Associate General Counsel.
As usual, we invite the media to participate in listen-only mode on the call and ask that you not identify participants or their firms in your report.
We also do not allow audio recording, which we ask that you respect.
Let me now this over to Joe for the Safe Harbor disclosure.