Andy Vuong in The Denver Post reports that the Dish Network wants to use spectrum it purchased to provide mobile broadband for smartphones, and is asking the Federal Communications Commission to drop a condition that handsets using the new spectrum be able to communicate with both satellites and ground-based cellular towers. "While acknowledging that FCC rulemaking can take close to a year, Dish is hoping for an expedited process because of the nation's looming spectrum crunch," Vuong wrote in the company's hometown paper. Read the full story in The Denver Post.