Rick Engelman Joins Wiley Rein

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Former FCC International Bureau chief engineer Rick Engelman has joined D.C. communications law firm Wiley Rein as a consultant in its telecom practice.

Engelman has most recently been the director of spectrum resources and government affairs for Sprint. Before that he spent three decades at the FCC (1977-2007) at the International Bureau, Office of Engineering & Technology and the Field Operations Bureau, the predecessor to the Enforcement Bureau. 

He had been with Sprint since leaving the FCC. 

The Wiley in Wiley Rein is Dick Wiley, who was the FCC's chairman in 1977.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.