Federal Council elects Jean-Pierre Hubaux to ComCom
The Federal Council has appointed Professor Jean-Pierre Hubaux as a new member of the Federal Communications Commission. He succeeds Professor Pierre-Gérard Fontolliet, who has stepped down from the commission upon reaching retirement age.
The Federal Council has appointed Professor Jean-Pierre Hubaux as a new member of the Federal Communications Commission (ComCom). He succeeds Professor Pierre-Gérard Fontolliet, who retired from the Commission at the end of 2006. The 49-year-old Hubaux is a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science and Communication Systems at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, as announced by the Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (DETEC) on Wednesday. ComCom now once again consists of seven members. It takes key regulatory decisions in the liberalized telecommunications market, such as on tenders for mobile telephony licences, on interconnection disputes between providers and on the award of universal service licences.
