FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:                  News Media Contact:
July 24, 2001                                Meribeth McCarrick at (202) 418-0654
                                        e-mail: mmccarri@fcc.gov 

  WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS BUREAU ANNOUNCES PERSONNEL ACTION 
                                 
Thomas J. Navin to Serve as a Deputy Chief of the Bureau's Policy Division

       Washington, DC   The FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau has announced that
Thomas J. Navin will join the Bureau as a Deputy Chief of the Policy Division.
       Prior to his new position, Navin served as an Attorney-Advisor in the FCC Common
Carrier Bureau's Policy and Program Planning Division, where he was the team leader on SBC
Communications Inc.'s Missouri 271 application.  He joined the Common Carrier Bureau in July
1999 as an Attorney-Advisor in the Competitive Pricing Division where he worked on the
Commission's CALLS Order, addressing access charge and universal service reform. 
Before joining the FCC, Navin was an associate at McDermott, Will & Emery in its
regulatory practice group where he worked primarily of wireless issues.

Navin received a B.S. from Wake Forest University, and a J.D. from the University of
Virginia, where he was an Executive Editor of the Virginia Journal of International Law.  He lives
with his wife and three daughters in Great Falls, VA.

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