Dish wants to offer mobile, portable and fixed broadband services, and bundle them with its satellite services. "Dish expects that the consumer equipment will include broadband-capable tablet computers, among other devices. Once the network is deployed, consumers will be able to use their devices for high-speed Internet access as well as a myriad of IP-based, over-the-top applications, including video," it wrote in its application.

Dish also used the filing to urge the FCC to not allow the proposed AT&T acquisition of T-Mobile. "DISH's plan is threatened by that transaction; it would produce the nation's single largest [mobile] provider and would result in a virtual duopoly within the mobile voice and data services market," it wrote.

The satellite provider said its network could reach millions of people and said it would adhere to a tight schedule for building out the network, should the FCC approve it.

The IDG News Service