Thomas J. Sugrue is Vice
President of Government Affairs at T-Mobile U.S.A.In this position he is responsible for managing T-Mobile’s
regulatory and legislative activities at both the federal and state levels.
Prior to joining T-Mobile
U.S.A., Sugrue served for four years as Chief of the Wireless
Telecommunications Bureau in the Federal Communications Commission. The
Wireless Bureau is responsible for programs and policies governing the nation’s
wireless industries, including running the FCC’s radio spectrum auctions
program, establishing rules and policies for wireless services, and handling
the FCC’s licensing, enforcement, and other regulatory functions.
Prior to becoming Wireless
Bureau Chief in January 1999, Sugrue was a partner in the Washington D. C. law
firm of Halprin, Temple, Goodman & Sugrue, where he specialized in
communications law, regulation, and policy.
From 1989 to 1995, Sugrue
was the Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications
and Information Administration (NTIA).At NTIA, Sugrue advised the Assistant Secretary, the Secretary of
Commerce, and the White House on communications and information issues,
developed Executive Branch policy positions, and implemented regulatory and
political strategies to advance those positions.
Prior to joining NTIA,
Sugrue worked at the FCC as Chief of the Policy Division in the Common Carrier
Bureau.While at the FCC, Sugrue
was responsible for developing and implementing a number of key policy
initiatives, including the FCC's interconnection, open network, and unbundling
rules; the Commission's "access charge" policies; the promotion of
universal service; and the transition to competition in various
telecommunications markets, including the break-up of the Bell System.
Before joining the FCC,
Sugrue was an attorney with the law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering and
a law clerk with the Supreme Court of Massachusetts.
Sugrue holds a J.D.
degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard
Law School, a Master's degree in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of
Government of Harvard University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in physics, magna cum laude, from Boston College.
