En Banc Hearing on Spectrum Management

Spectrum Management - April 6, 1999
Public Notice 

The FCC held a series of en banc presentations to the five FCC Commissioners on various communications policy issues. The purpose of this en banc series, was to educate and inform the Commissioners, FCC staff, and the public about differing perspectives on current issues in telecommunications policy. The presentations were held as a part of regular open agenda meetings.

• Audio Recording of Presentations
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• Transcript of the En Banc Presentation
  Text Format | WordPerfect Format | Acrobat Format - 377 pages, 405 KB

Agenda

Introductory Remarks

9:00 - 9:10

• Chairman William E. Kennard
• Commissioner Susan Ness
• Commissioner Gloria Tristani
• Other Remarks

Panel 1: Spectrum Management Fundamentals

9:10 - 10:10

Panelists: :

• Dale Hatfield, Chief, OET, FCC [ Slide Presentation ]
• Bruce Franca, Deputy Chief, OET, FCC [ Slide Presentation ]
• Tom Sugrue, Chief, WTB, FCC [ Slide Presentation ]
• Tom Tycz, Chief, Satellite and Radiocommunications Division, IB, FCC [ Testimony: Text | Word | Slide Presentation ]
• William T. Hatch, Acting Associate Administrator, Office of Spectrum Management, NTIA
• Robert Pepper, Chief, OPP, FCC

Panel 2: Spectrum Management Today: What Works and What Doesn't Work

10:15 - 11:30

Panelists:

• Lynn Claudy, Senior Vice President of the Science and Technology Department, NAB
• Mark Crosby, President, Industrial Telecommunications Association
• Mike Kennedy, Corporate Vice President and Director, Motorola Inc. [ Testimony: Acrobat ]
• Henry M. Rivera, Shook, Hardy & Bacon [ Testimony: Acrobat ]
• Phil Salas, Director of Radio Technology, Alcatel USA [ Slide Presentation ]
• John Stanton, CEO, Western Wireless Corporation
• Leslie Taylor,President, Leslie Taylor Associates [ Slide Presentation ]

Break

11:30 - 11:45

Panel 3: New Approaches to Spectrum Management

11:45 - 1:00

Panelists:

• Thomas W. Hazlett, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research; and Professor, University of California, Davis (invited)
• Dewayne Hendricks, General Manager Wireless Business Unit, Com 21, Inc.
• Dr. Charles L. Jackson, Jackson Associates
• Kalle Kontson, Vice President and Division Manager, IIT Research Institute [ Slide Presentation ]
• Joseph Mitola III, Consulting Scientist, The MITRE Corporation
• Dr. Eli Noam, Professor of Finance & Economics, Columbia University
• Ralph Petroff, President & Chief Executive Officer, Time Domain Corporation