Forget those small gray Dish Network satellites you see mounted and hooked into the building. It seems Dish Network may soon fore go any of those old-fashioned connections.Dish Network has filed paperwork with the Federal Communications Commission seeking approval to move toward mobile-broadband services. Dish Network’s emergence into the wireless-communications sector is a clear challenge to entrenched firms like AT&T and Verizon. (Dish Network’s operation takes some inspiration from LightSquared, too, another new comer to the mobile-broadband market which the FCC has praised for increasing competition.)

This expansion comes in wake of Dish Network’s other additions, including Terrestar, DBSD — both companies with satellite-spectrum licenses — and, notably, Blockbuster.

Looks like both movie night and those satellites will soon get a make over.

Read more at The Washington Post ^[1].