NEWS                                                    February 29, 1996
                                    
                                    
                ELLIOT E. MAXWELL NAMED DEPUTY CHIEF, OPP


     Elliot E. Maxwell has been named Deputy Chief of the FCC's Office of Plans and
Policy.

     He is rejoining the Commission from the Department of Commerce where he has
spent the last two years as Director of International Technology Policy.  In that position he
has led efforts to ensure that U.S. international policies serve to promote the development
and diffusion of U.S. technology and to increase the access of U.S. private sector firms to
foreign technology and foreign government technology programs.

     He previously worked at the FCC as Special Assistant to the Chairman from 1978 to
1980 and as Deputy Chief, Office of Science and Technology (now called Office of
Engineering and Technology), from 1980 to 1981.

     Before joining the Department of Commerce, he spent nearly ten years working for
Pacific Telesis Group in San Francisco supervising multidisciplinary staff charged with
integrating business, technical and public policy planning.

     Chairman Reed Hundt said, "I am enormously pleased to be able to get Elliot to
rejoin the Commission.  He not only is an internationally recognized expert on
telecommuications  policy but he also has a broad understanding of technology and business
strategy that will be invaluable in helping us implement the new telecommunications law."
We're extremely lucky to get someone of Elliot's experience, insight, and intelligence to help
us at this critical time."

     Maxwell received his B.A. cum laude from Brown University and his J.D. from Yale
University where he was a member of the Yale Law Journal Board of Editors.  He also is
the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship for study in Japan.

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