January 19, 1999


        JIM SCHLICHTING TO BECOME DEPUTY BUREAU CHIEF OF THE
                WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS BUREAU  


     Jim Schlichting will be joining the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau as
Deputy Chief.

     Since February 1998, Schlichting has served as Deputy Chief of the FCC's Common
Carrier Bureau, with particular responsibility for policy issues related to common carrier pricing
and universal service.  Previously, he served for two years as Chief of that Bureau's Competitive
Pricing Division, which was responsible for developing and implementing policies for reforming
the Commission's interstate access charge and price cap rules in light of the new competitive
paradigm of the 1996 Act.  Before that, Schlichting was Chief of its Policy and Program
Planning Division for six years, when it was responsible for Commission common carrier policy
issues in such areas as interexchange competition, interstate access charges, enhanced services,
video dialtone, and the emergence of competition to local telephone companies.

         Schlichting has been at the FCC since August 1985.  Before becoming Chief
of the Common Carrier Bureau's Policy Division, he served as Special Counsel for Domestic
Policy in that Division, and as Legal Advisor on common carrier issues to FCC Chairman Dennis
R. Patrick.  In 1986, Schlichting was co-author of a law review article entitled "Back to the
Future:  A Model for Telecommunications," 38 Fed. Comm. L.J. 145.  Before coming to the
Commission, Schlichting was an attorney with the law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering,
where he worked on telecommunications and litigation matters.  

          Schlichting received his B.A. degree from Yale University, and his J.D. degree from the
Harvard Law School.  He also received a research certificate in history from Cambridge
University, and served as law clerk to Judges Tone, and then Swygert, on the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago.  

     
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