Harris Wiltshire Attorney Paoletta Added to Trump FCC Landing Team
The Trump FCC landing team added Harris Wiltshire attorney Patricia Paoletta, according to its roster, which was updated Thursday. Paoletta specializes in telecom, trade and tech policy at the firm, advising on issues before the FCC and the administration, including spectrum issues. "Her clients include providers of mobile broadband and Internet of Things (IoT), VoIP, submarine cable and other international telecommunications," says her Harris Wiltshire webpage. She's the sixth member of the landing team.
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Public Knowledge Senior Vice President Harold Feld welcomed the naming of Paoletta and other recent additions to the team. "In 3 weeks, the Landing Team has doubled in size. We have moved from being an echo chamber of radical right-wing economists to including people with actual real world experience," Feld emailed. "While I doubt I will be ecstatic about the recommendations, I am at least somewhat more confident that they will be based on the real world."
Paoletta was a senior adviser to the International Bureau chief and office director at the FCC. She also was director of telecom trade policy at the U.S. Trade Representative's executive office of the president, where she worked on World Trade Organization IT and telecom agreements, NAFTA implementation and various bilateral agreements, says her Harris Wiltshire webpage. It listed some of her filings at the FCC on 4G, 5G and other wireless/spectrum issues.
Paoletta confirmed to us that she worked at the FCC under President George H.W. Bush and was a delegate for President George W. Bush to the UN Commission on the Status of Women, but otherwise didn't comment. The Trump transition didn't comment, nor did FCC landing team member Jeffrey Eisenach, one of three American Enterprise Institute scholars on the team. More recently, the landing team added David Morken, CEO of Bandwidth.com, and Carolyn Roddy, a Georgia attorney with industry experience (see 1612290038 and 1701060056).