Former FBI chief joins wireless auction group
Published July 13th, 2007
Former U.S. FBI Director Louis Freeh threw his support behind a start-up wireless company that is proposing to build a national network shared with commercial and public safety users.
Freeh said he had joined in support of a plan by Frontline Wireless, whose proposal is part a plan to bid on valuable wireless airwaves at an upcoming auction by the Federal Communications Commission.
“This auction is just the last chance in my time to see some effective plan (for a wireless network for public safety agencies) be implemented,” Freeh said at a press conference organized by Frontline.
Freeh was a federal judge in Manhattan from 1991 to 1993 and served as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1993 to 2001.
He is the latest of several former government officials recruited by Frontline in an effort to bolster its proposal for the 700-megahertz band airwaves auction. Also behind Frontline are two former FCC chairmen, Reed Hundt and Mark Fowler.
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