Subject: [NEXTEL-1] CTIA- Wheeler out Timmy in

From: Marcel <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 21:04:38 -0500

He told them? Most of the time the employer tells the employee if they intend to renew
their contract.
Funny RCR fails mention that "Timmy" is in after Wheeler leaves. (Ok, RCR lurkers get with
the program) Did anyone catch Wheeler on CNN/MSNBC yesterday what a character!
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WASHINGTON—Thomas Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet
Association, this afternoon told
the CTIA executive committee that he does not intend to renew his contract, which expires
at the end of 2003.
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Wheeler to leave CTIA at end of ’03

December 03 17:17:00, 2002

WASHINGTON—Thomas Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, this afternoon told the CTIA executive committee that he does not intend to renew his contract, which expires at the end of 2003.

“I will have been here 11 and one-half years. It has been an incredible experience, the highlight of my career. I don’t have any specific plans [for the future.] I will continue to do some consulting with CTIA. I hopefully will do some other consulting and investing in the wireless space, writing some books and other community activities,” said Wheeler.

Wheeler said he was required by his contract to give a year’s notice, which he did on Tuesday. He added that he had a full agenda for the next 12 months.

Wheeler, who has led the $42 million trade association since 1992, is credited with bringing in PCS carriers and others under the group’s ever-growing umbrella. He expanded the lobbying group into mobile data a few years ago when that industry began to gain traction and changed the association’s name to reflect the growing role of the Internet.

He is well regarded within the industry as a stellar public speaker and within the Beltway as one of the most effective lobbyists in Washington, able to work both parties easily. Indeed, Wheeler built CTIA into one of the most formidable lobbying forces in the nation’s capital and played a big role in getting the mobile-phone industry largely deregulated at the state level in 1993.

Under his leadership, the industry has been able to withstand legal challenges on health and consumer-related fronts. CTIA’s Wireless Foundation also has grown substantially under Wheeler’s tenure, giving recognition to ordinary people who have made emergency 911 calls to highlight the public-safety uses of wireless telephony. The foundation also has been instrumental in giving wireless phones and service to people in need.

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