Primary Job Title Scholar in Residence, Interdisciplinary Telecom Program Primary Organization 
University of Colorado
Location Denver, Colorado, United States Regions Greater Denver Area, Western US Gender Male
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David Reed is currently the Faculty Director of the Interdisciplinary Telecom Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Prior to joining the University of Colorado, Dr. Reed was a senior executive at Cable Television Laboratories. As CableLabs’ Chief Strategy Officer, he led large R&D projects covering a wide range of technologies
relevant to the cable industry such as application platforms, business services, voice-over-IP, and broadband delivery systems.
Reed also has been a Telecommunications Policy Analyst in the Office of Plans and Policy at the Federal Communications Commission where he worked on cable-telco competition, personal communications services (PCS), and spectrum auction policies.
Reed has authored a book on residential fiber optic networks, and is a widely published author in telecommunications journals, books, and magazines. He has been a contributor of interdisciplinary analyses that played key roles in defining U.S. policy debates on PCS spectrum allocation and local access competition.
