Baker Re-Ups at CTIA

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

Meredith Attwell Baker, president of wireless association CTIA, has been signed to a new, five-year contract, which will extend her tenure atop the association to 2024.

Baker is a former FCC commissioner and head of the National Telecommunications & Information Administration, the White House's chief policy advisor, under President George W. Bush.

Baker joined CTIA in April 2014-Baker left the FCC in 2011 to become senior VP of government affairs for Comcast-NBCUniversal.

At CTIA, Baker has shepherded the association through the incentive auction process and its hunt elsewhere for more spectrum for 5G.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.