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Robert Pepper has been Chief of the Office of
Plans and Policy (OPP) at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) since
December 1989. Under Pepper's leadership, OPP is responsible for policy
questions that cut across traditional industry and institutional boundaries,
especially those arising from the development of new technologies. At OPP,
Pepper's responsibilities have included leading teams implementing provisions of
the Telecommunications Act of 1996; assessing the development of the Internet
and the broadband markets; designing and implementing the first spectrum
auctions in the United States; developing more market-based spectrum policies;
assessing competition in the video marketplace; and assessing the impact of the
development of the Internet on traditional communications policy structures.
Before joining the FCC, Pepper was Director of
the Anne berg Washington Program in Communications Policy Studies. He also has
been Director of Domestic Policies and Acting Associate Administrator at the
National Telecommunications and Information Administration and developed a
program on communications, computers, and information at the National Science
Foundation.
He is a graduate of the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, where he also received his doctorate.
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