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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:                  News Media contact:
September 12, 2000                      Maureen Peratino, 202-418-0506


SHERILLE ISMAIL TO BE NAMED DEPUTY CHIEF, CABLE SERVICES BUREAU


     Washington, DC -- FCC Chairman William Kennard has announced his intention
to name Sherille Ismail Deputy Chief of the Commission's Cable Services Bureau.

     Ismail has been Deputy Director of the Office of Legislative and
Intergovernmental Affairs (OLIA) since September 1999.

     Chairman Kennard said, "Sherille helped steer the Commission's legislative
agenda on difficult issues relating to broadband policy, spectrum use, and
implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.  With his broad experience in
telecommunications issues, he brings valuable insight and sound judgement to assist
the Commission's deliberations on the equally complex convergence issues arising
from the new economy."

     Before joining OLIA, he served as a team leader in the Common Carrier Bureau
and worked on complex proceedings to implement key sections of the 1996 Telecom
Act.  Before that he was a senior attorney in the International Bureau.

Prior to joining the FCC, he served as a senior advisor to Rep. John Conyers Jr.,
on the Judiciary and Government Operations Committees in the U.S. House of
Representatives from 1990 to 1996.

Ismail is a cum laude graduate of Georgetown University's School of Foreign
Service and Georgetown Law School.  In his leisure time he loves to paint.  He lives in
North Potomac, MD, with his wife, Yezoola, and three young daughters, Sumaiya,
Raisha and Tahira.

                                
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