Earlier this year, T-Mobile announced that it would be consolidating some of its call centers as part of a larger restructuring effort. The company did not specify how the company would be reorganized.

Kohl has not yet set a date for the hearing. Groups such as Public Knowledge have criticized the deal, saying that it has the “potential to thwart innovation in digital music.”

In his remarks, the chairman said, “[some] have argued that transactions, let’s be frank — one transaction — is somehow causing a shortage and causing a price change. But the overall amount of spectrum hasn’t changed, except for the amount we've added to it.”

The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission fired back at AT&T and T-Mobile on Tuesday, saying the agency’s decision to block the mobile giants’ merger won’t push up consumer prices.

Republican Ajit Pai and Democrat Jessica Rosenworcel were unanimously approved Monday to join the FCC’s five-member board. They are widely supported by members of Congress, who lauded their past experience at the FCC and in telecom policy.

The vote had been held up after Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) placed a hold on the vote because he wanted documents from the agency regarding LightSquared. He lifted his hold on the confirmation late last month.

The controversy surrounds Comcast’s launch last March of its Xfinity video streaming service over Microsoft’s XBox. The streaming service won’t count against consumers’ 250 gigabyte monthly data cap, which has sparked the ire of Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and public interest groups who say the practice gives unfair preference to its own service over competitors.

They have used their devices to immediately search for information to settle an argument, according to a report released Monday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

Thompson’s biography and Yahoo filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission both list that Thompson has degrees in accounting and computer science. But an activist Yahoo investor called the computer degree into question in a scathing letter to the company’s board Thursday. After first calling the discrepancy a mistake, the board has started an investigation.