Reed E. Hundt

Reed E. Hundt (born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 3, 1948) was chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission from 1993 to 1997. Appointed by President Bill Clinton, he served for most of Clinton's first term. He was succeeded by William Kennard. He oversaw the introduction of spectrum auctions and the implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 that reduced substantially the rates for international telecommunications service. Ann Arbor redirects here. ... is the 62nd day of the year (63rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... FCC redirects here. ... William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III[1] on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ... Chairman, United States Federal Communications Commission 1997 to 2001 Appointed to the Chairmanship by Bill Clinton in November, 1997 after the resignation of the previous chairman, Reed Hundt, William E. Kennard devoted his chairmanship to meeting two challenges of the Digital Age. ... The Telecommunications Act of 1996[1] was the first major overhaul of United States telecommunications law in nearly 62 years, amending the Communications Act of 1934, and leading to media consolidation. ...

After leaving the FCC, Hundt has worked as an advisor to McKinsey & Company and to the Blackstone Group. He has also joined the board of several technology companies, including Intel Corp., where he took the seat of legendary icon Gordon Moore upon Moore's retirement. In addition, Hundt is on the advisory board of Yale School of Management. He has written "You Say You Want A Revolution: A Story of Information Age Politics" (Yale:2000) and "In China's Shadow: The Crisis of American Entrepreneurship" (Yale: 2006) as part of the Future of American Democracy Foundation's Future of American Democracy Series. McKinsey & Company is a privately owned management consulting firm that focuses on solving issues of concern to senior management in large corporations and organizations. ... Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE: BX) is a prominent private equity and investment management firm founded in 1985 by Peter G. Peterson and Stephen A. Schwarzman. ... Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC, SEHK: 4335), founded in 1968 as Integrated Electronics Corporation, is an American multinational corporation that is best known for designing and manufacturing microprocessors and specialized integrated circuits. ... Gordon Earle Moore (b. ... The Yale School of Management (also known as Yale SOM) is the graduate business school of Yale University and is located on Hillhouse Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Yale SOM offers M.B.A. and Ph. ... The Future of American Democracy Foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy foundation dedicated to research and education, working in partnership with the Yale University Press to clarify and analyze contemporary domestic and foreign policy. ...

More recently, Hundt has launched a new company, Frontline Wireless, to bid on a portion of the 84MHz of spectrum soon to be reclaimed by the government from traditional analog television broadcast and auctioned^[1]. While congress ordered that 24 MHz of the spectrum be set aside for public-safety purposes with the other 60 MHz for open use, Hundt proposes altering the rules of the auction to require public-safety use be granted priority on some portion of the remaining spectrum. This twist, if approved by the FCC, would apply to any bidder for that additional spectrum, potentially giving Frontline an advantage.

Hundt earned a B.A. with Exceptional Distinction in History from Yale College (1969) (where he served as executive editor of the Yale Daily News) and a law degree from Yale Law School (1974) where he was a member of the executive board of the Yale Law Journal. From 1975 to 1993 he practiced law at Latham & Watkins. For other uses, see Yale (disambiguation). ... A front page of the Yale Daily News. ... The Sterling Law Building Sculptural ornamentation on the Sterling Law Building Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. ... The Yale Law Journal, published continuously since 1891, is by far the oldest and most widely known of the eight law reviews published by students at Yale Law School. ... Latham & Watkins LLP is one of the most prestigious and largest international law firms in the world, currently employing more than 1,900 attorneys based in the U.S., Europe and Asia. ...

Hundt is an advisor to Barack Obama on technology and communications issues. He also serves on the board of the non-profit public interest group Public Knowledge. “Barack” redirects here. ... Public Knowledge is a non-profit Washington, D.C.-based lobbying group that is involved in intellectual property law, competition, and choice in the digital marketplace, and an open standards/end-to-end Internet. ...

He is married to Elizabeth "Betsy" Katz. He is the father of Adam, Nathaniel and Sara Hundt.

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References

• Reed Hundt bio at Intel
• techliberation's commentary on Frontline's public interest comment filed with the FCC
• gigaom commentary on Frontline and the spectrum auction
• Reed Hundt bio at Public Knowledge