FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                    NEWS MEDIA CONTACT:
August 11, 1999                                        Meribeth McCarrick at (202) 418-0654

                   WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS BUREAU 
               OFFICE OF THE BUREAU CHIEF PERSONNEL CHANGE

     
David Furth Named Senior Legal Advisor

     David Furth has been named Senior Legal Advisor to the Chief of the Wireless Bureau.  Furth
joined the FCC in August 1992.  He has served as a staff attorney in the Private Radio and Wireless
Telecommunications Bureaus, Legal Advisor to Commissioner Rachelle Chong, Chief of the Commercial
Wireless Division, and Co-Chair of the Universal Licensing System Task Force.  Prior to joining the
Commission, he was in private practice with Piper & Marbury in Washington, DC and with Shartsis,
Friese & Ginsburg in San Francisco, California.  Furth received his B.A. from Harvard University and his
J.D. from Stanford Law School.  He lives in Bethesda, Maryland with his wife, Martha Finnemore, and
their children, Andrew and Emma. 

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