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FCC member to step down

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TIMES WIRE REPORTS

Deborah Taylor Tate, one of three Republicans on the five-member Federal Communications Commission, will be leaving the agency when her term expires early next month.

Tate, a former telecommunications and public utilities regulator from Tennessee, joined the FCC in January 2006. During her time on the commission, she played an active role in efforts to overhaul the Universal Service Fund, the federal program that subsidizes telephone service in rural and low-income communities.

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