1st Edition

Telecommunications

By Clifford M. Will Copyright 1979
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

In early 1970 President Richard M. Nixon created a new executive office, the Office of Telecommunications Policy (OTP), and appointed Dr. Clay T. Whitehead as OTP's first director. (Whitehead had previously been on the staff of Peter Flanigan, a presidential assistant responsible for telecommunications policy at the White House.) What was the motivation behind this action? Were political interests... Read more
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Biography

Thomas E. Will is associate publisher of Telecommunications magazine. He was previously a policy analyst with the Office of Telecommunications, U.S. Department of Commerce. Dr. Will holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.