NEWS
April 6, 1998

           CRAIG BROWN NAMED DEPUTY CHIEF,  COMMON CARRIER BUREAU
                         ACCOUNTING POLICY DIVISION
                                                                             

       Craig Brown has been appointed Deputy Chief of the Accounting Policy
Division of the FCC's Common Carrier Bureau.  

       Since November 1995,  Brown has served as an Attorney-Advisor in the
Policy and Program and Planning Division of the Common Carrier Bureau, where he
worked on issues relating to the implementation of the local competition provisions
of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.  Prior to joining the FCC, he was an
associate at the law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, D.C.

       Brown received a J.D. cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in
1992.  He clerked for the Honorable Edmund V. Ludwig of the Federal District
Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.  He earned a B.S. in Electrical
Engineering from Northwestern University in 1986.

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