As the productive and con-sequential term of Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai comes to an end, significant challenges re-main on the communications landscape. While great prog-ress has been made in areas like securing U.S. leadership in 5G, closing the digital divide and modernizing media, much re-mains to be done. Chairman Pai’s successor — whoever that may be — will wrestle with many of the same problems but is likely to pursue very different solutions.

Originally published in Los Angeles & San Francisco Daily Journal - December 10th, 2020.