@jryter
First, the statement about "strong enough signals" is not only ridiculous, it makes no sense. There are only three small pockets of the contiguous US that can't receive signals from the Echostar 19 satellite, and they are covered by the Echostar 17 satellite, which also provides Gen5 service. The only time a signal is too weak to provide service is when it's affected by weather or the dish is out of alignment.
Second, "oversold" is a subjective term. What is oversold? If you're going by the strictest of terms, as in guaranteeing 25Mbps to all customers at any given time of the day, barring technical or weather issues, then the service would have to be locked down to a relatively small number of subscribers, and each of those customers would have to pay a ridiculous price for service in order for HughesNet to remain a viable company. Likely $1000 or more per month. Are you going to pay that? Of course not. Nor is anyone else. So, they continue to sell, just as their main competitor does, both to offer the most expensive form of internet to provide and maintain, per capita, at a reasonable price, and because an internet connection in this day and age is still important, and to tell people who have no other hope of internet, "Sorry, streaming may not work perfectly because of system load, so we aren't accepting any new customers.", would just be wrong on so many levels.
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