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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: 
 October  6,  2003  Michael  Balmoris,  202-  418-  0253  Email:  michael.  balmoris@  fcc.  gov 
 RODGER  WOOCK  NAMED  CHIEF  ECONOMIST,  WIRELINE  COMPETITION  BUREAU 
 Washington,  D.  C.  –  Today,  William  Maher,  Chief  of  the  Wireline  Competition  Bureau  of  the  Federal  Communications  Commission  (FCC),  announced  that  Rodger 
 Woock  has  been  named  Chief  Economist,  Wireline  Competition  Bureau.  In  this  position,  Dr.  Woock  will  advise  the  Bureau  Chief  on  economic  issues  and  lead  efforts  to  better 
 understand  the  market  effects  of  issues  before  the  Bureau. 
 “I  am  pleased  that  Rodger  has  joined  the  Bureau’s  management  and  policy  leadership.  His  expertise  will  make  an  already-  deep  team  of  Bureau  economists  even 
 stronger,”  Mr.  Maher  said. 
 Dr.  Woock  has  spent  fifteen  years  in  the  telecommunications,  cable  and  wireless  industries.  Most  recently,  Dr.  Woock  was  Director,  R&  D  Engineering  at  AT&  T 
 Broadband  Labs  in  Denver,  Colorado.  He  has  been  a  Member  of  Technical  Staff  at  Bellcore,  and  was  a  Director  at  US  WEST  Advanced  Technologies  and  MediaOne  Labs. 


 Dr.  Woock  has  worked  in  diverse  telecommunications  and  economic  disciplines,  including  product  development  and  service  design,  enterprise  and  program  valuation, 
 systems  and  operations  analysis  and  improvement,  customer  behavioral  scoring,  auction  optimization,  competitive  technology  and  financial  analysis,  public  policy  and  regulatory 
 analysis. 
 Dr.  Woock  has  Ph.  D.  and  M.  S.  degrees  in  Economics  from  the  University  of  Illinois  and  a  B.  A.  in  Economics  from  the  University  of  Colorado. 


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