FTC appointed ex-FCC official Dale Hatfield as its monitor truste...

FTC appointed ex-FCC official Dale Hatfield as its monitor trustee to oversee AOL-Time Warner merger, as expected. Monitor authority was part of consent decree companies signed in Dec. (CD Dec 15 p1), which requires merged entity to add at least one independent ISP to its cable systems before adding AOL, and 2 more after. Trustee also will deal with other technical issues, such as capacity constraints. Hatfield recently restarted his Boulder, Colo., consulting business after retiring as chief of FCC Office of Plans & Policy. He’s also ex-staffer of Commerce Dept.