Mr. Pham is Of Counsel in the Washington, D.C., office of Morrison & Foerster llp, where he focuses on domestic and international communications matters, including licensing and regulatory compliance, transactions, and litigation involving antenna and wireless carriers, broadcast stations, satellite service providers, providers of new technology services, and equipment manufacturers. Mr. Pham’s regulatory practice includes advising and representing clients before the Federal Communications Commission and California Public Utilities Commission on all aspects of federal and state communications law. Mr. Pham’s transactional practice includes negotiating network service agreements, inter-carrier contracts, and other telecommunications-related contracts. Mr. Pham also represents telecommunications carriers and other companies in litigation on issues such as interconnection, rate regulation, telephone billing practices, and broadcast advertising.

Before joining Morrison & Foerster in 1999, Mr. Pham was an associate at the Washington, D.C. office of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, llp (1994-1998) and at the San Francisco office of Young, Vogl, Harlick, Wilson & Simpson LLP (1998-1999), where he also focused on communications law.

Mr. Pham received his J.D. from Cornell Law School in 1994, where he served as an Editor of the Cornell Law Review . He also received his B.A. with distinction in economics and psychology in 1991. Mr. Pham is a member of the California State Bar and the District of Columbia Bar, as well as the Federal Communications Bar Association.

Representative Matters:

• Advised and represented major national wireless carrier in various FCC rulemaking and licensing proceedings.
• Negotiated license and interconnection agreements for wireless carrier in Afghanistan.
• Successfully defeated challenge in federal appellate court against state and federal regulations allowing paging carrier to obtain reciprocal compensation in an interconnection dispute.
• Successfully prosecuted FCC application for authorization to provide mobile satellite service.