In a letter to the Justice Department and Federal Communications Commission, Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) didn’t oppose the deal outright, but he said any approvals should come with Verizon’s willingness to sell off some spectrum in certain markets to prevent it from being too dominant.

“Americans deserve a government that works for them anytime, anywhere, and on any device,” Obama said in a statement. “By making important services accessible from your phone and sharing government data with entrepreneurs, we are giving hard-working families and businesses tools that will help them succeed.”

France’s Commission Nationale de L’Informatique et des Libertés, or CNIL, sent additional questions to the Silicon Valley search giant as it investigates the company’s privacy policy changes for potential harm to consumers.

Julius Genachowski said during a cable industry trade show in Boston that “usage-based pricing could be healthy and beneficial” for broadband and high-tech industries.

In a letter to Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, antitrust officials said that it appears that the firm displays links for its own services in a way that disadvantages the competition.

Here’s our article from the weekend about the year-long saga for investor Philip Falcone and LightSquared.

The company asked the FCC last week to help it swap its L-band spectrum for other airwaves that don’t have GPS interference issues.

In a blog post on the subject, the company said that it has “decided to change our approach and replace our static 250 GB usage threshold with more flexible data usage management,” and that it will offer all households 300 GB per month and add additional tiers based on connection speeds. Those who use more data at each tier can buy additional blocks, the post said, at a price of $10 per 50 GB.

On Thursday, Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) said that the social network’s public stock offering is a prime example of why Congress needs to close loopholes in corporate taxes.

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.