Jonathan Sallet
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Jonathan Sallet is a partner in O’Melveny’s Washington DC office.

Jonathan’s legal background includes serving as Chief Policy Counsel of MCI Telecommunications and previous partnerships in two nationally-known law firms.

Jonathan served in the Clinton Administration as Assistant to the Secretary and Director of the Office of Policy & Strategic Planning of the Department of Commerce, focusing on economic and technology policy. He was a member of the small group of Administration officials who met regularly with Vice President Gore to address the telecommunications issues that became the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and he headed the first White House working group on the deployment of educational technology.

From 1996-2000, Jonathan served as Chief Policy Counsel of MCI (later MCI WorldCom) where he concentrated on issues arising from the implementation of the Telecommunications Act, including the opening of markets to competition and where he oversaw merger reviews concerning BT, WorldCom and Sprint.

Jonathan has taught as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law School and the University of Maryland.

Blog Entries by Jonathan Sallet

April's Dollars & Deals: The Broadband Value Circle

Posted April 25, 2011 | 13:39:06 (EST)

In April, Apple announced that it had sold every iPad2 it could make in the first quarter, and almost ten million more iPhones than it had sold the previous year. AT&T and Verizon's earnings reports reflected the benefit each garnered from partnering with Apple, and Nokia's emphasized its new partnership...

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Beatles Break-Up: Forty Years Later, Ringo Rules

Posted April 9, 2010 | 13:30:52 (EST)

The formal dissolution of The Beatles was announced on April 10, 1970. And, with the end of the band, the story of Ringo Starr seemed set in concrete. You remember: Ringo, the last member of the band, shunted to the sidelines when the Beatles first recorded for George Martin but,...

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On the Internet, it's 1904

Posted February 12, 2010 | 15:27:43 (EST)

By Don Abelson, Jonathan Aronson & Jonathan Sallet*

Imagine you're a physicist and it's 1904. The universe is a confusing place. What you know to be true is increasingly out of step with Newtonian principles that you revere. For example, examination of the supposed "ether" has delivered anomalous results; the...

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Innovation Clusters Create Competitive Communities

Posted September 21, 2009 | 14:37:08 (EST)

President Obama's call for a national innovation policy to spur sustainable economic growth and job creation contains an important new idea -- community leadership is a critical component of our nation's economic strength that the federal government must actively cultivate. The President and his team recognize that when dynamic local...

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