FCC Enforcement Official Tapped to Lead Spectrum Office at NTIA
Charles Cooper, a longtime spectrum engineer, was named Friday as associate administrator of NTIA’s Office of Spectrum Management, starting July 1. He joins after six years at the FCC, where he's field director in the Enforcement Bureau. Cooper will direct…
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the biggest office at NTIA, with 150 or so staffers. NTIA has been without a permanent associate administrator for spectrum since Paige Atkins left last summer. Peter Tenhula has held the job in an acting capacity. The announcement was closely watched, especially since David Redl, a spectrum expert, left as administrator last month (see 1905140063). Acting NTIA Administrator Diane Rinaldo earlier recused herself from spectrum deployment issues because her husband works as a lobbyist for T-Mobile. Cooper will “assist the Commerce Department with development of the National Spectrum Strategy, and coordinate interagency preparation for the pivotal World Radiocommunication Conference this fall that sets rules for global use of the radiofrequency spectrum,” NTIA said. Formerly head of the FCC Los Angeles field office, Cooper took the top slot after a reorganization under then-Chairman Tom Wheeler, which saw many of the offices shuttered (see 1507160036).