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To: foundation who wrote (14006)	8/16/2001 6:48:15 PM
From: Ramsey Su	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197245

NextWave - who are the losers? Nextwave is certainly not the loser. Reasons obvious. The re-auction winners should be jumping for joy. Now they just buy the minutes from Nextwave without having to fork out a jillion dollars for the spectrum, not to mention the risk of building out a network. Some may mumble that the taxpayers got screwed. However, let us just assume there is $10B extra that the re-auction generated. What was congress going to do with that money? Blow it on a few missles or use it for that ridiculously meaningless tax rebate? On the other hand, let us assume that our government actually decided to use the $10B to subsidize a super technology that is going to catapult the US back to the leading position of the wireless world. Her citizens can enjoy the pleasures of high speed data without strings far sooner than anyone else on earth. Even the real loser of this entire fiasco, Kennard, got himself one nice package at Nextel. So who is the loser? Someone should tell the FCC to stop the nonsense now and let nextwave move on. Ramsey

To: foundation who wrote (14006)	8/16/2001 7:08:13 PM
From: cfoe	Respond to of 197245

NextWave...to build a mobile, digital data wireless network. I have a question for the legal scholars on this thread (JGoren - that may mean just you <g>). Can the FCC do anything to stop NW from building out and activating the system short of getting an injunction issued by the Court of Appeals or the Supremes? Does NW need anything physical from the FCC to light up the network? In other words, is the spectrum just a range of frequencies that are already "out there" and once the proper infra equipment is installed, NW will be ready to go? Could we have a situation where the network is running when the case goes in front of the Supremes (if it ever actually does)? Weird situation, no???