September 16, 1999
  
                  DAN CONNORS TO JOIN WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS
  BUREAU 
  
  Dan Connors will be joining the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau's
  Commercial Wireless Division as Associate Division Chief when his detail as interim
  Senior Legal Advisor to Commissioner Susan Ness concludes later this month.  He has
  been advising Commissioner Ness on international and wireless telecommunications policy
  since July 1998.  Before that, he was an attorney-advisor in the International Bureau's
  Satellite Division. 
  
  Prior to joining the Commission in 1997, Connors was a corporate attorney in
  private practice with Graham & James in San Francisco and Tokyo and with O'Sullivan
  Graev & Karabell in New York City specializing in mergers and acquisitions, project
  finance and other transactional matters.  Prior to practicing law, he was a salesman with
  IBM and a telecommunications analyst at MCI.
  
  Commissioner Ness said, "I am extremely grateful to Dan for the wisdom,
  judgment, and long hours of service he provided while serving as my advisor.  While I will
  miss his presence in my office, I am very pleased that the Wireless Telecommunications
  Bureau and its staff will gain the benefit of his knowledge and experience." 
  
  Connors received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, an M.B.A.
  from UCLA's Anderson School of Management and his undergraduate degree from the
  University of Maryland.
  
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