Wireless Bureau Chief Rick Kaplan is leaving the FCC, and being...
Wireless Bureau Chief Rick Kaplan is leaving the FCC, and being replaced by his predecessor as chief, Ruth Milkman, the agency said Wednesday. Kaplan led the bureau’s review of AT&T’s failed attempt to buy T-Mobile and was leading the review…
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of Verizon Wireless’s proposal to buy AWS licenses from SpectrumCo and Cox. The FCC has a target deadline of Aug. 7 to wrap up work on the transactions. The bureau is also working on developing rules for an upcoming auction of broadcast TV spectrum, among other major issues. Kaplan told us he will likely stay about three more weeks, and conceded it’s hard to leave the job with some big items unfinished. “The bureau will obviously be in great hands with Ruth,” he said. “I wouldn’t have left it under any other circumstances.” Kaplan has been at the commission since 2009, including as a top aide to both Commissioner Mignon Clyburn and Chairman Julius Genachowski. Milkman, who originally worked with Genachowski as an aide to former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt, was Wireless Bureau chief from August 2009 to June 2011. Milkman has been special counsel to the chairman for innovation in government.