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John Lane is the Senior Policy Advisor to the Chairman of Cyren Call Communications. In this capacity, Mr. Lane draws on his extensive prior experience with the domestic wireless industry especially as it relates to public safety wireless communications. Mr. Lane is a Life Member of Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials - International (APCO), the highest honor that the association can bestow and reserved only for those members who have made a significant contribution towards the objectives of APCO. Mr. Lane served as APCO’s senior counsel for more than 20 years and represented APCO in the highest traditions of honesty and integrity before Congress and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). He was instrumental in convincing key congressmen they needed to insist the FCC give public safety priority in spectrum allocations and proposals. This resulted in additional spectrum being awarded to public safety in the Communications Amendments Act of 1982, (Senate Report) and in the 1983 Appropriations Act for the FCC. Mr. Lane also assisted some individual public safety communications agencies in obtaining unused broadcast spectrum for public safety use. Mr. Lane assisted the association leadership in strengthening its financial stability, investments and accountability. He helped create APCO’s original tax-exempt institutes and subsidiaries. He served as a key business and legal advisor for each board with which he worked and, in times of financial hardship, continued to serve APCO on a pro-bono basis. Mr. Lane is a former partner in Wilkes, Artis, Hedrick & Lane, a Washington law firm; a member of the ABA, where he was the chairman of the standing committee unauthorized practice of law as well as the chairman of the standing committee national conference groups; a former member of Federal Commission Bar Association; and held a position on the Board of Regents at Georgetown University. Mr. Lane received his undergraduate degree and Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University. | 