REED 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.
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.
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.
He is the father of Sara Hundt.

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1. DTV Bill Heads to President's Desk

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★ 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