NEWS                                                         May 29, 1998

                 THOMAS G. KRATTENMAKER RETURNS TO FCC 
       AS DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH IN THE OFFICE OF PLANS AND POLICY 

     Thomas G. Krattenmaker has been named Director of Research in the FCC's Office of
Plans and Policy.  He will assume this position on June 29.  

     He is currently Special Counsel for Policy and Regulatory Affairs in the Department
of Justice's Antitrust Division and is on leave from William and Mary School of Law where
he has been Dean from 1994 to 1997.

     From 1978 to 1980 Krattenmaker was Co-Director of the FCC's Network Inquiry
Special Staff.  He is the author of the 1998 book Telecommunications Law and Policy.

     He has also been a professor at Georgetown University Law Center; Scholar in
Residence at the law firm of Latham&Watkins; Visiting (Fulbright) Professor of Law at the
University of Natal (Durban), South Africa; Chief of the Evaluation Division, Bureau of
Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission; Law Clerk to Supreme Court Justice
John Harlan and an Assistant Professor Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law.

     FCC Chairman William Kennard said "I am thrilled that Tom will be joining our team
in OPP with his extensive background as a policymaker and scholar, combining law and
economics.  I am looking forward to his guidance and counsel as we craft policies for the
digital age."

     Krattenmaker has a B.A. in economics (high honors), Phi Beta Kappa, from
Swarthmore College where he was a General Motors National Scholar, and a J.D, magna cum
laude, from Columbia University School of Law, where he was Notes Editor of the Columbia
Law Review. 
     
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