Konrad Schaefer, 77, died at home Tuesday in McLean, Virginia. He worked on telecom issues in the Carter and Reagan administrations, and was an aide on international issues to then-FCC Chairman Mark Fowler. He then started his own international telecom…
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consulting firm and co-founded the first private company to lay a fiber cable between the U.S. and U.K. His last job was chairman and CEO of Swisscom North America, which he started after Switzerland, a client at his consulting firm, asked him to open a North American arm of that country's state-owned telecom company. Schaefer is survived by wife, sister, two sons, a daughter and four grandchildren. Funeral services are 1:45 p.m. Friday at Temple Rodef Shalom, 2100 Westmoreland St., Falls Church, Virginia, and burial is immediately afterwards at King David Memorial Gardens, followed by a gathering at what was his home, 1487 Evans Farm Dr., McLean. Contributions can be made to Capital Caring, 950 N. Glebe Rd., Arlington, Virginia.