Obituary
Konrad Schaefer, 77, died at home Tuesday in McLean, Virginia. He worked on telecom issues in the Carter and Reagan administrations, and was an aide on international issues to then-FCC Chairman Mark Fowler. He then started his own international telecom…
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consulting firm and co-founded the first private company to lay a fiber cable between the U.S. and U.K. His last job was chairman and CEO of Swisscom North America, which he started after Switzerland, a client at his consulting firm, asked him to open a North American arm of that country's state-owned telecom company. Schaefer is survived by wife, sister, two sons, a daughter and four grandchildren. Funeral services are 1:45 p.m. Friday at Temple Rodef Shalom, 2100 Westmoreland St., Falls Church, Virginia, and burial is immediately afterwards at King David Memorial Gardens, followed by a gathering at what was his home, 1487 Evans Farm Dr., McLean. Contributions can be made to Capital Caring, 950 N. Glebe Rd., Arlington, Virginia.