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To: rrufff who wrote (3000)	1/6/2001 9:44:34 PM
From: Jim	Respond to of 3376

The table below indicates how the spectrums may be made available to small wireless companies that can not bid on their own capital basis. If the spectrum auction sells to the large corporations which in turn resell to the small caps, what happens? Isn't there another cost layer intervening between the auction price to the end user? At least MCOM does not have to enter this type of spectrum manipulation. Small Bidders, Big Backers Nine of the top 15 bidders in an auction for wireless spectrum are entrepreneurs backed by big cellular carriers -- despite rules aimed at having small players compete in the market independently. Company Backer Bid (in billions) Stake Alaska Native Wireless AT&T Wireless $2.000 40% Salmon PCS Cingular Wireless 1.500 85 Black Crow Wireless U.S. Cellular 0.421 85 Leap Wireless Intl. Qualcomm 0.309 13 Dobson Communications AT&T 0.258 14 Cook Inlet VoiceStream 0.254 unavailable Lafayette CommunicationsTriton PCS 0.228 39 SVC BidCo. Sprint Corp. 0.043 80 Northcoast CommunicationsCablevision 0.020 50 Source: FCC filings Jim (aka <a79erplus>