The FCC Wireless Bureau announced last week the shifts in respons...
The FCC Wireless Bureau announced last week the shifts in responsibilities among its staff members as part of its recent reorganization into 6 new divisions. A bureau spokeswoman said the legal advisers and deputy bureau chiefs generally had shifted…
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the divisions they supported. The bureau chief’s office added Aaron Goldberger as a legal adviser to provide support to the Public Safety & Critical Infrastructure Div. (PSCID) and to coordinate with the FCC Office of Engineering & Technology. The bureau named Lauren Patrich as special counsel for media and outreach. It announced 2 reassignments in the chief’s office: (1) Chief Engineer Thomas Stanley will be responsible for wireless technology and engineering policy on licensing or sharing wireless services. (2) Chief Economist Walter Strack will be policy and technical adviser on economic issues concerning regulatory policy, spectrum policy and auctions. In other areas, the Bureau said: (1) Deputy Bureau Chief Catherine Seidel is supporting the bureau’s new Broadband Div. and the PSCID. (2) Deputy Bureau Chief Gerald Vaughan is supporting the Spectrum & Competition Policy Div. and the Spectrum Management Resources & Technology Div. (SMART). (3) Acting Deputy Bureau Chief Peter Tenhula provides support to the Mobility Div. and the Auctions & Spectrum Access Div. Tenhula also directs the agency’s Spectrum Policy Task Force. Margaret Wiener, chief of the bureau’s Auctions & Industry Analysis Div., becomes chief of the new Auctions & Spectrum Access Div. The new Broadband Div., which has taken on some policy areas that had been in other divisions, is headed by Joel Taubenblatt, who was deputy chief of the former Policy Div. and a legal adviser to the bureau chief. The Div.’s policy areas include Multipoint Distribution Service/ITFS, advanced wireless services, 70-80-90 GHz, Local Multipoint Distribution Service, 24 GHz and 18 GHz issues. D'wana Terry, who headed the previous iteration of the Public Safety Div., becomes chief of the new Public Safety & Critical Infrastructure Div. William Kunze is heading the Spectrum & Competition Policy Div., responsible for Spectrum Policy Task Force implementation, secondary markets. His division also will include competitive reviews of proposed transactions. Elsewhere, John Chudovan is heading the SMART Div., which covers all the bureau’s information technology, licensing support, auctions support and outreach functions.