Comments filed with the Federal Communications Commission on “LightSquared Request to Modify Its ATC Authorization” and “Comments deadlines established regarding the LightSquared Technical Working Group Report”

Comments filed with the Federal Communications Commission on “LightSquared Request to Modify Its ATC Authorization” and “Comments deadlines established regarding the LightSquared Technical Working Group Report”

The need for additional spectrum for mobile broadband is well established and a central part of the Commission’s 2010 National Broadband Plan.

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Thomas Lenard is Senior Fellow and President Emeritus at the Technology Policy Institute. Lenard is the author or coauthor of numerous books and articles on telecommunications, electricity, antitrust, privacy, e-commerce and other regulatory issues. His publications include Net Neutrality or Net Neutering: Should Broadband Internet Services Be Regulated?; The Digital Economy Fact Book; Privacy and the Commercial Use of Personal Information; Competition, Innovation and the Microsoft Monopoly: Antitrust in the Digital Marketplace; and Deregulating Electricity: The Federal Role.

Before joining the Technology Policy Institute, Lenard was acting president, senior vice president for research and senior fellow at The Progress & Freedom Foundation. He has served in senior economics positions at the Office of Management and Budget, the Federal Trade Commission and the Council on Wage and Price Stability, and was a member of the economics faculty at the University of California, Davis. He is a past president and chairman of the board of the National Economists Club.

Lenard is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and holds a PhD in economics from Brown University. He can be reached at [email protected]

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