NEW YORK — Satellite TV broadcaster Dish Network wants to build a wireless broadband network as a way to help it compete more effectively with cable TV and phone companies that offer video services.

Cable and phone companies are able to bundle TV signals with Internet access services. Satellite companies cannot do so as well because satellites can't provide Internet services to many households, and speeds are slower.

In a filing late Monday, Dish asked the Federal Communications Commission to let it use the wireless spectrum of satellite company TerreStar, which it bought last year out of bankruptcy, for ground-based broadband service.

Dish didn't say when it would build the network or how many people it would cover. It plans to use a network technology for which devices could show up in 2014. It said tablet computers would be one possible category of device to use the network, but it also mentions home terminals that combine satellite TV and wireless broadband.

Another company, LightSquared, is also trying to repurpose satellite spectrum for terrestrial broadband. That project has run up against concerns that its signals will interfere with GPS navigation.