NEWSJanuary 29, 1998

           DONALD K. STOCKDALE, JR. NAMED ASSOCIATE CHIEF, COMMON
                               CARRIER BUREAU

                Donald K. Stockdale Jr. has been appointed Associate Chief of the FCC's
Common Carrier Bureau. 

                Since May 1996  Stockdale has served as a deputy chief of the Policy and
Program Planning Division of the FCC's Common Carrier Bureau.  In that
capactity, he supervised, among other things,  portions of the Commission's Section
251 interconnection proceeding and participated in the development of the
Commission's competition and merger policies.    

                Previously, Stockdale served as an attorney-advisor in the Policy and
Program Planning Division where, among other things, he supervised the AT&T
Reclassification  proceeding.  Prior to joining the FCC, Stockdale taught business
and public policy at the University of Maryland Business School.  Before that he
was a litigation associate at the New York law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett,
where he specialized in U.S. and European antitrust law.  

                He  has a B.A., J.D. and Ph.D. in Economics, all from Yale University, and
a M.A. in economics from Kings College, Cambridge.
                                       
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