Before his current position as Vice President of Regulatory Affairs and Business Development for Shared Spectrum, Mr. Tenhula spent 15 years at the Federal Communications Commission. While at the FCC, he had played an important role in a wide range of critical wireless and spectrum policy initiatives, including development and implementation of Personal Communications Services (PCS) and the FCC�s spectrum auction program; approval of ultra-wideband (UWB) technology; removal of barriers to secondary spectrum markets; and release of the groundbreaking report of the FCC�s Spectrum Policy Task Force. Before leaving the FCC, Tenhula served as Acting Deputy Chief of the FCC�s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and Director of the Spectrum Policy Task Force. Prior to that, he was Senior Legal Advisor to Chairman Michael K. Powell, whom he advised on wireless, international and homeland/national security matters. |