Dr. Boyd L. Nelson died Sunday. He had been chief of the Economic Studies Division of the Common Carrier Bureau of the FCC from mid-1960s through the late 1970s. He then held other positions at the FCC before his retirement in 1982.
At the FCC his most notable achievements were the writing of the Recommended Decision of the Chief of the Common Carrier Bureau in Docket 18128, the Private Line Rate Cases, that adopted Fully Distributed Cost as the costing method of choice. He also mechanized the production of the Statistics of Communications Common Carriers, and recruited a very strong staff in Economics and Statistics, many of whom are still at the FCC.
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