Trump Adds Wireless Entrepreneur to FCC Landing Team

President-elect Donald Trump has added a fourth member to the Federal Communications Commission landing team, the volunteers working on transitioning the agency to Republican majority control come Jan 20. David Morken is the newest member, currently the co-founder and CEO of Republica Wireless parent company, Bandwidth.com. Morken combines a couple of life experiences that appear to hold a lot of weight with the incoming President. He is a former member of the US military (a Marine) and an entrepreneur/disruptor who built an "overnight success" through a decade of hard work growing a business. Bandwidth.com, which started as a URL generating sales leads for other telecoms, built out its network on the theory that Wi-Fi could be the primary network and cellular (Sprint) the backup, which would allow it to charge less ($19 a month at launch) for voice and broadband.