Verizon's former CEO and a former FCC chairman push LightSquared's case directly to FCC's Wheeler

Now that LightSquared has emerged from bankruptcy protection, it is lobbying hard to get access to spectrum to launch a wireless network. Specifically, the company is relying on big-name executives in the wireless industry to push its case directly to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler.

According to an FCC filing, on May 15, former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt, who has been representing LightSquared since at least December 2014, met with Chairman Wheeler, Chairman Wheeler's senior counselor Philip Verveer, and Renee Gregory, a legal adviser to Chairman Wheeler. Also present at the meeting on behalf of LightSquared was former Verizon Communications CEO Ivan Seidenberg, who is expected to serve as LightSquared's new chairman. Hundt is also a board member of the newly restructured company. At the meeting, Hundt and Seidenberg "underscored the need for the Commission to move forward promptly" so that LightSquared's L-Band spectrum can "be use for broadband terrestrial services and that spectrum located at 1675-1680 MHz can be made available for terrestrial services."