FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
December 15, 2000


 MARGARET W. WIENER BECOMES CHIEF OF THE AUCTIONS AND INDUSTRY
  ANALYSIS DIVISION  OF THE WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS BUREAU

     Thomas Sugrue, Chief of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, has named Margaret
Wiener Chief of the Bureau's Auctions and Industry Analysis Division.

     The Auctions and Industry Analysis Division is responsible for implementing the
competitive bidding authority for spectrum auctions given to the Commission by the 1993
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, and revised by Congress in the 1997 Balanced Budget Act.

     Since July 1997, Ms. Wiener has worked in the Auctions and Industry Analysis Division,
serving as Chief of the Legal Branch and as Deputy Division Chief (Legal). Prior to coming to
the Commission in 1997, Ms. Wiener was of counsel at Harkins Cunningham in Washington,
where she worked on competition issues related to freight railroad mergers.  She has also served
in the law department of Conrail in Philadelphia, where she focused on competition issues,
including regulated as well as deregulated matters and antitrust, and as a litigation associate at
Shearman & Sterling in New York. She earned her B.A. from Yale University and her J.D. from
New York University School of Law.

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