Sell It, Lease It, or Give It Away --How Can Spectrum Reform Best Promote Wireless Internet Deployment?
May 1, 2003
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Gerard J. Waldron, Partner
Covington & Burling
Mr. Waldron is a partner at Covington & Burling who practices in communications law, with particular emphasis in the wireless, broadcast, common carrier, international, cable, and satellite areas.
He has extensive experience on Capitol Hill, where he worked for Rep. Edward J. Markey, 1982-85; the House Subcommittee on Energy, 1985-87; the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications, 1987; and was Senior Counsel on the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications, 1991-1995. In addition, from 1990-1991, he clerked for Judge Dickson Phillips, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
He received his B.A. in 1982 from the University of Virginia and M.P.P. and J.D. degrees in 1990 from Duke University
Steven Berry, Senior Vice President for Government Affairs
Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA)
Steven K. Berry is Senior Vice President for Government Affairs at the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA). Prior to joining CTIA in 1997, Mr. Berry practiced in the Federal Legislative and International practice areas as a Partner in the law firm of Holland & Knight. Mr. Berry has extensive legislative experience gained from 20 years of work on Capitol Hill and at the Department of State. Until March 1996, he served as Chief Counsel for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Prior to his position as Chief Counsel, he served as Director of International Operations and European Affairs for the Committee. Previous to accepting his position with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Mr. Berry served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary and Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs to Secretaries of State James A. Baker, III and Lawrence S. Eagleburger. From 1987 to 1990, Mr. Berry served as Chief of Staff for the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Michael Calabrese , Director of the Spectrum Policy Program
New America Foundation
As Director of New America's Spectrum Policy Program, Michael Calabrese manages the organization's efforts to improve the management and allocation of the airwaves and other public assets. As Co-Director of the Retirement Security Program, he also oversees the Foundation's work to reform and expand our nation's private pension system. Previously, Mr. Calabrese served as Director of Domestic Policy Programs at the Center for National Policy, as General Counsel of the Congressional Joint Economic Committee, and as pension and employee benefits counsel at the national AFL-CIO.
An attorney and graduate of both Stanford Business and Law Schools, Mr. Calabrese speaks and writes frequently on issues related to fiscal policy, retirement security, health coverage, and labor markets. He has co-authored three books and published opinion articles in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. Mr. Calabrese is currently completing a book that advocates universal asset-building accounts to expand pension coverage and human capital investment among lower-income workers.
David R. Siddall, Of Counsel
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP
David Siddall is nationally recognized for his work on spectrum policy issues and new communications services, with many years of communications policy experience on Capitol Hill and at the FCC before joining Paul Hastings in 2002. He was at the heart of the policy debates when the FCC adopted regulations to govern a variety of new and existing services and to auction radio licenses.
In the early 1970's Mr. Siddall assisted the ranking minority Member on the House Communications and Power Subcommittee. Later as a legislative attorney at the Congressional Research Service he provided non-partisan counsel to Senators, Congressmen, and committee staff on the entire range of communications issues.
Beginning in 1985, Mr. Siddall served in a succession of high-level positions at the FCC. As legal advisor to FCC Commissioner Susan Ness he was deeply involved in regulatory policy issues ranging from wireless, broadcast, and satellite services to legal, spectrum, technology, and international requirements and proceedings. Earlier he was chief of the FCC's Spectrum Allocation Branch, participating directly in all international and domestic spectrum allocation matters - particularly those affecting the broadband and narrowband personal communications services ("PCS") and satellite services. Before that, Mr. Siddall was senior attorney and assistant chief of the Mass Media Bureau, where he lead the staff on advanced (digital) television policy; and he was senior attorney in the Common Carrier Bureau's Policy Division working on competition issues that arose after the breakup of AT&T.
Mr. Siddall is admitted to practice before the bars of the District of Columbia and the U.S. Supreme Court. He also is an active member of the Federal Communications Bar Association, for which he co-chairs the Engineering and Technical Practice Committee; and of the American Bar Association. Mr. Siddall is co-author of the book "FCC Lobbying A Handbook of Insider Tips and Practical Advice".
Thomas W. Hazlett, Senior Fellow
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
Thomas Hazlett is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and a Columnist for the Financial Times' New Economy Policy Forum @ FT.com. His research focuses on law and economics, with particular emphasis on telecommunications policy. Dr. Hazlett received his Ph.D. in economics from U.C.L.A. From 1984 through June 2000 he was a professor at the University of California, Davis, where he taught economics and finance and served as Director of the Program on Telecommunications Policy. In 1990-91 he was a Visiting Scholar at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and in 1991-92 he was Chief Economist of the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, D.C. He is currently a Senior Research Associate at the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information and a Fellow of the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies.
Dr. Hazlett's academic research has appeared in such publications as the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Law & Economics, Economic Inquiry, Southern Economic Journal, Review of Industrial Organization, Journal of Legal Studies, Columbia Law Review, Journal of Regulatory Economics, Supreme Court Economic Review, Business & Politics, Hastings Law Journal, The Public Interest, International Journal of the Economics of Business, Public Choice, Regulation, Managerial & Decision Economics, Yale Journal on Regulation, Telecommunications Policy, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Harvard Journal on Law & Public Policy, Connecticut Law Review, Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review, Federal Communications Law Journal, Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy, Stanford Technology Law Review, and the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. He has also contributed articles to such general interest periodicals as Barron's, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Newsday, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Sacramento Bee, San Francisco Chronicle, The Economist, Reader's Digest, Across the Board, Chief Executive, The American Enterprise, The Weekly Standard, Forbes, and The New Republic. He served as a contributing editor to Harper's, was a columnist for Forbes ASAP, and wrote the "Selected Skirmishes" column in Reason Magazine, 1989-2000.
Dr. Hazlett is a Senior Adviser to Analysis Group/Economics, and has provided expert testimony in federal and state courts, before the Department of Commerce, General Accounting Office, and the Federal Communications Commission, and to committees of Congress. In addition, he has served as a consultant to numerous private firms, the State of California, Congressional Budget Office, federal agencies, municipal governments and foreign governments. Dr. Hazlett is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society, a Senior Research Associate of the Columbia Institute for Tele-information, and a Senior Fellow of the Liberal Institute in Prague, Czech Republic. In 1990-91 he was awarded the Wriston Citicorp Fellowship, a prize awarded annually by the Manhattan Institute to a young scholar working in an important area of public policy. His book (with Matthew L. Spitzer), Public Policy Toward Cable Television, was published by the MIT Press in 1997.