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To: Jon Koplik who wrote (27226)	4/15/1999 9:51:00 PM
From: Jon Koplik	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

To all - FCC auctions more wireless spectrum (if already posted -- sorry, I am still hopelessly behind in reading all of the posts). April 15, 1999 FCC Sells Communications Licenses Filed at 7:24 p.m. EDT By The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- A government auction of licenses to deliver mobile phone, fax and other communications services ended Thursday, generating nearly $413 million from 57 companies for 302 licenses. The Federal Communications Commission's auction began March 23 and closed after 78 rounds. A total of 347 licenses were on the block. Cook Inlet/Voice Stream PCS was the biggest winner, in terms of the total amount of money bid, pledging $192.3 million for 28 licenses. A subsidiary of Omnipoint Corp. was second with $45 million for 34 licenses, and Viper Wireless Inc. ranked third with $32.2 million for six licenses, the FCC said. It's the second time the FCC has auctioned the licenses. They were either unsold the first time around or returned to the commission by cash-strapped companies that couldn't pay for them. Three years ago winners in an airwaves auction reserved for small businesses pledged $10.2 billion for licenses for the next generation of wireless communications, known as personal communications services, or PCS. After the auction, some of the winners said they couldn't pay for the new wireless licenses, some asked the FCC for relief and some filed for bankruptcy protection. Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company