FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler Names Howard Symons Vice Chair, Incentive Auction Task Force

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler named Howard Symons Vice Chair of the Incentive Auction Task Force. He will join Task Force Chair Gary Epstein in the management of the Commission’s implementation of the first-ever incentive auction.

Symons has been working in telecommunications in both the public and private sectors for thirty years. Most recently, as the Chair of the Communications practice at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, PC, Symons represented communications companies and trade associations on a wide range of issues before Congress, regulatory agencies and the Courts. Before joining the firm, he served as senior counsel to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications in the US House of Representatives. From 1978 to 1981, Symons was a staff attorney with the public interest organization founded by Ralph Nader, Public Citizen’s Congress Watch.