FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE              NEWS MEDIA CONTACT:
  March 30, 2000                     Mike Balmoris at (202) 418-0253
                                   Email: mbalmori@fcc.gov
  
                              
  FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION'S COMMON CARRIER
        BUREAU ANNOUNCES PERSONNEL PROMOTIONS 
                         
     Harmon and Pies Named as Deputy Division Chiefs, 
Cooke Named as Assistant Division Chief for Network Services Division
                              
  Washington, D.C.   Today, the Common Carrier Bureau of the Federal
  Communications Commission (FCC) made the following announcements of promotions
  and appointments in the Network Services Division (NSD).  This completes the selection
  of the NSD management team that started with the appointment of L. Charles Keller as
  Division Chief in October 1999.
       
  Diane Griffin Harmon has been appointed Deputy Division Chief for the
  Network Services Division.  Ms. Harmon will have primary responsibility for all
  numbering administration issues.  Ms. Harmon served as Assistant Division Chief for
  Network Services during 1999, where, in addition to her management duties, she served
  as the Designated Federal Official to the North American Numbering Council.  Prior to
  joining Network Services, Ms. Harmon had been Deputy Chief of the Formal Complaints
  and Investigations Branch of the Enforcement Division since April, 1998.  Ms. Harmon
  joined the Commission in 1996 as a Trial Attorney in the Litigation Division of the FCC's
  Office of General Counsel, and was detailed to work as a Staff Attorney in the Formal
  Complaints and Investigations Branch of the Enforcement Division.
  
  Staci L. Pies has been appointed Deputy Chief for the Network Services Division. 
  Ms. Pies will have primary responsibility for work relating to network service and
  reliability, including issues regarding competitive access to next-generation networks,
  access for the disabled, and Part 68 equipment policies and registration.  Ms. Pies has been
  an attorney in the Policy Division of the Common Carrier Bureau since 1996.  As a senior
  attorney in the Policy Division, she supervised projects related to advanced services and
  information services.  Ms. Pies joined the Commission in 1994, as a staff attorney in the
  Cable Services Bureau, Consumer Protection Division.
  
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  Gregory M. Cooke has been appointed Assistant Division Chief for the Network
  Services Division.  In addition to his management duties, Mr. Cooke will have primary
  responsibility for certain local competition, and local transport and access area (LATA)
  issues, including LATA modifications to deploy advanced telecommunications services. 
  Mr. Cooke joined NSD in September 1996 as a senior staff attorney, and was team leader
  on local competition projects handled by NSD, including directory assistance and dialing
  parity, as well as LATA boundary jurisdiction.  Mr. Cooke joined the Commission as a
  staff attorney in the Competitive Pricing Division in May 1995.
       
         The Network Services Division handles technical rulemaking issues
  related to the network, including, among other things, telephone-numbering issues,
  competitive access to next-generation networks, telecommunications access issues
  for people with disabilities, Part 68 equipment authorizations, and issues
  concerning LATA boundary modifications.
                           
                           
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