NEWS                                         April 8, 1997


DAVID E. HOROWITZ APPOINTED CHIEF OF THE PRIVATE 
WIRELESS DIVISION, WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS BUREAU

     David E. Horowitz has been appointed Chief of the Private Wireless Division of the
Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, effective March 16, 1997.  The Private Wireless
Division is responsible for policy and administration of the public safety radio services, the
private land mobile radio services, the aviation, marine, microwave, amateur, and personal
radio services, as well as the antenna structure registration and commercial operator licensing
programs.

     Mr. Horowitz joined the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau at the end of 1995, as
Deputy Chief (Legal) of the Private Wireless Division.  During the time he served in that
capacity, the Division spearheaded a number of significant rulemaking initiatives, with such
results as the streamlining of the rules for the private operational fixed and common carrier
microwave services, the consolidation of twenty private land mobile radio services into two
"pools" of frequencies, and the creation of the new Family Radio Service.

     Mr. Horowitz joined the Commission in August 1988 as a staff attorney with the
Legal Branch of the Policy and Rules Division of the Mass Media Bureau.  Two years later,
he was appointed Chief of that Branch, a position he held for five years.  During his tenure
with the Mass Media Bureau, Mr. Horowitz played a major role in shaping general policy
and developing the Commission's specific mass media rulemaking initiatives.

     Before joining the Commission, Mr. Horowitz worked for four years as an associate
with the Washington, D.C., law firm of Leventhal, Senter & Lerman, and for one year as an
associate with the law firm of Otterbourg, Steindler, Houston & Rosen, in New York.  He
began his professional legal career serving as judicial law clerk for the Honorable Philip
Nichols, Jr., Circuit Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in
Washington, D.C.

     Mr. Horowitz received B.A. and M.A. degrees in English from the University of
Chicago, and a J.D. degree from the University of Michigan Law School.

     Raised in Baltimore, MD, Mr. Horowitz currently resides in Silver Spring, MD, with
his wife, Nancy, and their son, Jacob.

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