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01/03/2017
Trump Adds Wireless Entrepreneur to FCC Landing Team
President-elect Donald Trump has added a fourth member to the FCC landing team, the volunteers working on transitioning the agency to Republican majority control come Jan. 20.
David Morken is the newest member, currently the co-founder and CEO of Republica Wireless parent company, Bandwidth.com.
Morken combines a couple of life experiences that appear to hold a lot of weight with the incoming President. He is a former member of the U.S. military (a Marine) and an entrepreneur/disruptor who built an "overnight success" through a decade of hard work growing a business.
Bandwidth built out its network on the theory that WiFi could be the primary network and cellular (Sprint) the backup, which would allow it to charge less.
Last month, Roslyn Layton, a visiting fellow at AEI, joined Jeff Eisenach and Mark Jamison on the team providing input on new FCC leadership.
