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 NEWS  News  media  Information  202  /  418-  0500  TTY  202  /  418-  2555  Fax-  On-  Demand  202  /  418-  2830  Internet:  http://  www.  fcc.  gov  ftp.  fcc.  gov  Federal  Communications  Commission  445  12  th  Street,  S.  W.  Washington,  D.  C.  20554  This  is  an  unofficial  announcement  of  Commission  action.  Release  of  the  full  text  of  a  Commission  order  constitutes  official  action.  See  MCI  v.  FCC.  515  F  2d  385  (D.  C.  Circ  1974). 
 FOR  IMMEDIATE  RELEASE:  NEWS  MEDIA  CONTACT:  April  4,  2002  Michael  Balmoris  202-  418-  0253 
 Email:  mbalmori@  fcc.  gov 


 FCC  WIRELINE  COMPETITION  BUREAU  ANNOUNCES  PERSONNEL  PROMOTIONS  FOR  INDUSTRY  ANALYSIS  AND  TECHNOLOGY  DIVISION 
 Washington,  DC  –  Today,  Dorothy  Attwood,  Bureau  Chief  of  the  Federal  Communications  Commission’s  (FCC)  Wireline  Competition  Bureau,  made  the  following  personnel  announcements. 
 Ellen  Burton  has  been  named  Assistant  Chief  of  the  Industry  Analysis  and  Technology  Division  (formerly  the  Industry  Analysis  Division)  of  the  Wireline  Competition  Bureau.  Ms. 
 Burton  previously  was  a  senior  staff  economist  in  the  Industry  Analysis  Division  of  the  former  Common  Carrier  Bureau,  where  she  served  as  team  leader  for  the  Bureau’s  local  telephone 
 competition  and  broadband  data  collection  program. 
 Prior  to  joining  the  FCC  in  1996,  Ms.  Burton  worked  in  the  private  sector  as  an  economist  and  telecommunications  policy  analyst.  She  received  a  B.  A.  in  economics  from  the  University  of 
 Washington  and  a  Ph.  D.  in  economics  from  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology. 
 Fatina  Franklin  has  been  appointed  Assistant  Chief  of  the  Industry  Analysis  and  Technology  Division  (formerly  the  Industry  Analysis  Division)  of  the  Wireline  Competition  Bureau  where  her 
 primary  responsibility  is  administration  of  the  Commission's  Automated  Reporting  and  Management  Information  System  (ARMIS).  Mrs.  Franklin  has  been  with  the  FCC  in  various  capacities  since  1967. 
 Most  recently,  Mrs.  Franklin  was  Chief  of  the  Reporting  Management  and  Analysis  Branch,  Accounting  Safeguards  Division.  From  April  1988  until  April  1996,  she  was  Chief  of  the  Depreciation 
 Rates  Branch,  Accounting  and  Audits  Division,  where  she  had  responsibility  for  reviewing  and  recommending  the  prescription  of  depreciation  rates  for  domestic  telephone  companies.  In  April  1996, 
 she  assumed  the  position  of  Chief,  Competitive  Safeguards  Branch  (the  name  was  changed  to  Reporting  Management  and  Analysis  Branch  in  1998). 


 Fatina  Franklin  is  an  honors  graduate  of  the  University  of  Maryland  with  a  bachelor  of  science  degree  in  Business  Administration. 
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