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EchoStar Communications Corp. plans to launch its first television-commerce options this fall, with multiple shopping services offered through Dish Network receivers with interactive-television capabilities, company executives said earlier this week during an on-air subscriber 'Tech Chat.'
The company plans to introduce what it calls a 'Dish Wallet' so that consumers can store their credit-card information remotely on EchoStar servers for instant-ordering capability via the remote control.
Because the credit-card information would be secured on Dish servers, the confidential information would not travel the Internet during each transaction, and it wouldn't be stored on subscriber receivers in case a customer were to sell the set-top box.
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The company plans to introduce what it calls a 'Dish Wallet' so that consumers can store their credit-card information remotely on EchoStar servers for instant-ordering capability via the remote control.
Because the credit-card information would be secured on Dish servers, the confidential information would not travel the Internet during each transaction, and it wouldn't be stored on subscriber receivers in case a customer were to sell the set-top box.
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