NEWS                                              January 17, 1997

DANIEL B. PHYTHYON WILL BE NAMED DEPUTY CHIEF   , 
WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS BUREAU

     Daniel B. Phythyon will be named Deputy Chief of the Wireless Telecommunications
Bureau.   He had been Director of the Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs
since March 1996.

     Phythyon has served as Director of OLIA during the Commission's first year of
implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, having assumed this role within one
month of the Act's passage.  He played a crucial role directing the Commission's liaison
work with Congress during this critical period and supervising the development and
production of the Commission's 1996 Act implementation "tracking" schedules, which
ensured timely status reports for the agency and the public.  Phythyon joined the Commission
in December 1994 as Senior Legal Advisor to the Chief of the Wireless Telecommunications
Bureau.  In that capacity he was involved in all aspects of spectrum policy, including the
Commission's spectrum auctions.

     Prior to coming to the FCC he was Vice President, Congressional Liaison of the
National Association of Broadcasters and before that served as Staff Counsel for
Communications to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.

     Chairman Reed Hundt said, "I am enormously grateful to Dan for the excellent work
he has done as Director of OLIA during this historic time.  I am delighted he is willing to
take on new responsibilities in the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and I know the
Bureau and Commission will benefit enormously from his expertise and experience in this
area."

     Phythyon is a graduate of Westminster College, magna cum laude, and Cornell Law
School.  He lives in Maryland with his wife Carol and daughter Sara.

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