Dish Network Chairman Charlie Ergen has urged US regulators to approve his company’s plan for a nationwide high-speed network for wireless Internet devices.

Ergen met Jan. 6 with Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski.

Dish, the second-largest US satellite-television provider behind DirecTV, asked the FCC in August for clearance to buy assets of DBSD North America and TerreStar Networks and for license waivers.