FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE              NEWS MEDIA CONTACT:
  October 26, 1999                        Mike Balmoris at (202) 418-0253
                                     Email: mbalmori@fcc.gov
  
                              
                   COMMON CARRIER ACTION
                              
  FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION'S COMMON CARRIER
        BUREAU ANNOUNCES PERSONNEL PROMOTIONS 
                         
     Keller Named as Chief of Network Services Division
Schroder and Webber Named as Deputy Division Chiefs for Accounting Policy Division
                         
  
  Washington, D.C.   Today, the Common Carrier Bureau of the Federal
  Communications Commission (FCC) made the following announcements of promotions
  and appointments in the Network Services Division and the Accounting Policy Division.
       
  L. Charles Keller has been appointed Division Chief for the Network Services
  Division.  Mr. Keller has been a Deputy Division Chief for the Accounting Policy Division
  since February 1999, where he supervised projects related to universal service support for
  high-cost areas and low-income individuals.  Before becoming a deputy, he was a staff
  attorney in the Accounting Policy Division for three years.  Prior to joining the
  Commission, Mr. Keller was a telecommunications attorney in private practice.
       
  The Network Services Division handles, among other things, telephone-numbering
  issues, telecommunications access issues for people with disabilities, and Part 68
  equipment authorizations.
       
  Katherine L. Schroder has been appointed Deputy Division Chief for the
  Accounting Policy Division, reporting to Division Chief Irene Flannery.  Ms. Schroder will
  have primary responsibility for issues relating to the administration of the high-cost
  universal service support mechanism.  Since June 1998, Ms. Schroder has served as
  Counsel to the Common Carrier Bureau Chief for pricing and universal service issues. 
  Prior to joining the Office of the Bureau Chief, she served as an attorney in the Policy and
  Program Planning Division, and an attorney in the Competitive Pricing Division.  Ms.
  Schroder joined the Commission in 1994, after graduating from the Harvard Law School.
  
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  Sharon Webber has been appointed Deputy Division Chief for the Accounting
  Policy Division, reporting to Division Chief Irene Flannery.  Webber's primary
  responsibilities will be jurisdictional separations and the schools and libraries support
  mechanism.  Ms. Webber has been an attorney-advisor in the division since April 1998,
  and most recently served as federal staff chair for the federal-state joint board on
  jurisdictional separations.  During her time in the division, Ms. Webber also has worked
  on schools and libraries support issues.  Prior to joining the Commission, Ms. Webber was
  a telecommunications attorney in private practice.
  
  The Accounting Policy Division of the Common Carrier Bureau handles
  proceedings involving universal service support, including implementation of section 254
  of the Telecommunications Act, and jurisdictional separations reform.  The division staff
  also serves as the federal staff of the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service and
  the Federal-State Joint Board on Jurisdictional Separations.  
       
                           
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