When the FCC meets on November 4, it is scheduled to vote on the proposed $28.1 billion Verizon Wireless-Alltel merger and the Sprint-Clearwire merger.

If the Verizon/Alltel merger is approved, the merged company would become the nation's largest wireless carrier with 80 million customers.

FCC chief, Martin said that he wanted to push forward on the merger votes to  clear up uncertainty over those deals, because the credit crisis is putting business plans in various industries in limbo.

Another important happening on that date, the presidential election...