On Tuesday, bigwig satellite television provider Dish Network Corp. - which is seeking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s approval for setting up a smartphone network to challenge two leading us mobile providers, Verizon Wireless and AT&T - said that the FCC-proposed order pertaining to the rules that would govern the Dish-controlled wireless spectrum was "significantly flawed."

The application which Dish has submitted to the FCC for using the wireless spectrum - which it purchased for over $3 billion - for building a wireless US cellular network has been delayed by the commission. According to a FCC spokesman Neil Grace, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has sent the proposal to regulate Dish's use of the spectrum to the other FCC commissioners for a vote.

As per reports, the FCC apparently wants to limit Dish's airwave use in order to avert interference with the H-Block chunk of spectrum in which Sprint Nextel is apparently interested, for building its 4G LTE network.

With the FCC currently not licensing the H-Block spectrum, Dish - which controls approximately 40 MHz of broadband-ready AWS-4 wireless spectrum - has been reiterating that H-Block's auction and rulemaking processes should be the same as the ones which have been applicable to other spectrum bands for years.

About the FCC's proposed order, Stanton Dodge - Dish's Executive VP and general counsel - said that tough the order is "based on reported accounts," and "does properly address some of the opportunities with this spectrum," it still is "significantly flawed by introducing serious limitations that impair its utility."