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Technology Stocks : CellularVision (CVUS): 2-way LMDS wireless cable. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jam2000 who wrote (1225)	2/20/1998 2:28:00 PM
From: Rob Preuss	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2063

Here's the text from CVUS website: PMSA: >The Company has a commercial license that gives it the exclusive right >to provide Local Multipoint Distribution Service ("LMDS") to the 3.2 >million households in the New York Primary Metropolitan Statistical >Area ("PMSA"). Currently, there are approximately 528,000 households >in the area covered by the Company's two operational transmitters. >The December 1995 grant to the Company by the Federal Communications >Commission (the "FCC") of 34 applications for additional commercial >transmitter sites, has now put the Company in a position to expand its >subscription television services to cover most of the New York PMSA. >These grants authorize the Company to commence transmitter >construction and PMSA-wide commercial operations immediately, >conditional upon, and subject to the FCC's final rules for LMDS. >There can be no assurance that the final LMDS rules will be adopted >by the FCC as currently proposed. BTA: >The FCC has tentatively granted the Company a Pioneer's Preference >option to purchase, on a discounted basis, the exclusive rights to >service the portion of the New York BTA outside of its existing >service area, which would bring an additional 3.4 million households >into the Company's exclusive territory. There can be no assurance >that the FCC's final rules for LMDS will confirm the Company's >tentative Pioneer's Preference, or will do so on terms as favorable >to the Company as those currently proposed. Note these both say exclusive rights... where's the other A block? Has CVUS exercised (or, does it still enjoy) its BTA preference option... what was/is/will-be the price/discount for the BTA? Are these limited term (e.g., 10 year) licenses? It appears this info might be stale... is it??? If you add these together you get 3.2 + 3.4 = 6.6 million households. Now, if a household is a pop, this doesn't quite square with the numbers I've seen elsewhere... 8.6M pops. Can anyone explain the discrepancy or otherwise clarify? Thanks, Rob PS) A Block = 1150 MHz of bandwidth, B Block = 150 MHz of bandwidth. These figures for LMDS; A, B, etc are redefined for PCS. (right?)