Fairfax, VA, (March 10, 2003)- VMC Satellite, Inc. announced today that its total number of affiliate marketers passed the 50,000 milestone during March, 2003.

VMC's president, Rick Rahim, said "We've spent years building the most advanced organization of satellite TV salespersons in the world." All 50,000 of VMC's affiliates signed up for the free-to-join DISH Network marketing program on VMC's website at www.vmcsatellite.com.

VMC's affiliates are able to log in to a private section of the website and receive training, marketing support, and realtime tracking of website traffic, sales, payments, etc. VMC Satellite's list of affiliate satellite TV marketers is actually larger than the combined number of authorized satellite retailers in the USA for the major DBS providers.

VMC Satellite, Inc. is the largest independently owned DISH Network/Echostar retailer. The company owns and operates several hundred Internet domains, including www.satellite.com and www.vmcsatellite.com, the highest ranked satellite TV retailer website in the world. (Rankings can be obtained by visiting www.Alexa.com.)

Visitors to www.vmcsatellite.com can receive FREE Installation of a DISH Network Satellite TV system with no equipment to buy. DISH Network currently offers over 256 channels of available programming using an all digital Television signal.

VMC Satellite, Inc. (www.vmcsatellite.com) is currently responsible for approximately 2% of Echostar's new subscribers and is the only company selected by the United States Government to install satellite TV service in Congress.