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A growing number of Congressional leaders and state officials are urging the Federal Communications Commission to move forward with its review of LightSquared, the controversial startup that plans to build a national wireless broadband network using satellite spectrum.

Forty-two House members have sent a letter to the conferees on the payroll tax break extension package, asking that spectrum incentive auction legislation in the package allows the Federal Communications Commission to use some of spectrum reclaimed from that auction for unlicensed wireless.

MetroPCS, U.S. Cellular and several other regional carriers have requested that the Federal Communications Commission initiate a "shot clock" for roaming agreements with larger wireless carriers.

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Zachary Katz, chief counsel to Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski, will be named chief of staff, succeeding Eddie Lazarus.

Michael Copps has often clashed with the Federal Communications Commission chairman.

WASHINGTON: The House last night passed legislation authorizing the Federal Communications Commission to hold incentive auctions for broadcast spectrum.

The Federal Communications Commission has ruled in favor of Tennis Channel in its dispute with Comcast.

With that idea as the backdrop, the Federal Communications Commission and the Knight Foundation today awarded Code for America developer Ryan Resella the $30,000 Apps for Communities Challenge grand prize .

The Motion Picture Association of America has pitched the Federal Communications Commission an alternative timeline and more holistic approach to providing closed captioning for archival Internet-delivered TV shows to avoid what it suggests is the almost-impossible task of tracking down shows re-airing on cable and broadcast individually.