It didn't take long for Tom Wheeler, the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, to face controversy.
On Thursday, the agency's five-member commission is set to vote on whether to allow the public to comment on Wheeler's idea to allow cellphone calls and Internet access on flights.
That may sound like a minor procedural motion. But the proposal has generated so much backlash that some commissioners are wavering on whether to even take that step.
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