• TVNewsCheck, Friday, October 22, 2010 12:13 AM

Former cable and wireless communications lobbyist Tom Wheeler is heading an FCC Technology Advisory Committee on wireless broadband, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced. Wheeler is a managing director of Core Capital Partners, a Washington-based venture capital firm with some $350 million under management.

As a member of the Obama transition team, Wheeler worked with broadcasters on the DTV conversion and was involved in the decision to delay the final analog TV shut down from March to June. The FCC is looking to recover 300 MHz (or an estimated $120 billion worth) for mobile broadband by 2014 as part of an overall National Broadband Plan

Wheeler has been a fixture in communications policy circles in the capital since 1979, when he took over as president of the National Cable Television Association.

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