Suzanne Toller
Suzanne is a partner in DWT's San Francisco office. She has over 15 years of communications law experience, including: representation of telecommunications clients before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), state public utility commissions (including the California PUC), and in state and federal courts; advising clients on a broad range of regulatory and legal issues such as numbering, interconnection, service quality, consumer protection, regulatory status, privacy, competitive entry, construction of facilities, universal service, mergers and acquisitions, and certification/licensing; and developing public policy positions and legislative strategy on a number of telecommunications issues such as the use of wireless phones while driving and radio frequency (RF) health and safety issues.
Her clients include cellular and PCS carriers, interexchange carriers, paging companies, competitive local exchange carriers and industry associations. Prior to joining DWT, Suzanne was Vice President, Legal and External Affairs, and Senior Counsel at AT&T Wireless Services. She also previously served as Legal Advisor to FCC Commissioner Rachelle B. Chong; as Counsel at CMT Partners, d.b.a. Cellular One; and as an Associate Attorney at Morrison & Foerster.
Representative Experience: represented a coalition of wireless carriers in a challenge to the FCC’s rules establishing local number portability; drafted and revised FCC orders implementing provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996; served as an expert witness in litigation involving Local Multipoint Distribution Service licenses issued by the FCC; represented a wireless backbone provider/CLEC in obtaining state certifications in California, New York, Georgia, Maryland and Virginia; testified before a number of state legislatures, including those of California and Nebraska, on driver safety and RF emission issues; represented wireless carrier in an FCC proceeding to reform intercarrier compensation system, as well as in a coalition of major telecommunications carriers working to develop a proposal regarding the same.
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