Martin Stern
Marty Stern provides strategic and policy advice to telecommunications and information technology firms and represents these firms before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), State Public Utility Commissions, federal, state and local resource agencies, as well as on antitrust matters. Marty is the former deputy chief of the Competition Division at the FCC and is an authority on competition policy matters involving the nation's telecommunications markets. While at the FCC, he was actively involved in the Commission's implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and worked extensively on matters involving local telephone competition and interconnection, cable television, wireless telecommunications and utility company entry into telecommunications.
Marty has served as lead telecom regulatory and land use counsel in connection with numerous domestic and international undersea and terrestrial fiber optic cable projects, as well as on permitting issues associated with the siting and deployment of wireless facilities. Marty also has experience in the assessment of the impacts of cables on marine and terrestrial environments. Marty's experience includes obtaining all permits and approvals required for the siting and deployment of international and cross-border telecommunications facilities, and he has had extensive dealings with the White House, U.S. State Department, the International Boundary and Water Commission, and relevant Congressional committees in connection with such projects. Marty is also one of the founders of I-ROW, the Telecommunications Industry Rights-of-Way Working Group, a coalition of providers and organizations from all sectors of the telecommunications industry committed to eliminating the rights-of-way practices of federal, state, and local governmental entities as a barrier to the deployment of telecommunications facilities. Marty has also participated in agency rulemakings and workshops on telecom facilities deployment, and has been a featured speaker at industry and agency conferences addressing issues associated with the deployment of fiber and wireless facilities. Marty also represents a leading undersea cable provider in connection with the formation of and its participation in an undersea cable industry trade association concerned with environmental and land use issues. Marty is Co-Chair of the Federal Communications Bar Association State and Local Practice Committee, and previously served as Co-Chair of the FCBA Ad Hoc Committee on Telecommunications Competition Issues, and as vice chair of the Communications Committee of the American Bar Association Antitrust Section. Marty also is a member of the Advisory Board for Telecom Land Management Law Report.
Before joining the FCC in 1994, Marty was in private practice in Washington, D.C. for several years and also was a trial attorney in the Communications and Finance Section of the U.S. Justice Department's Antitrust Division.
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Biography last updated June 7, 2002