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Auction Winners Call for Settlement Between Government and NextWave

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AUCTION WINNERS CALL FOR SETTLEMENT BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND NEXTWAVE

WASHINGTON, DC - July 25, 2001 - The leaders of five wireless carriers who were winning bidders in the recent reauction
of wireless spectrum licenses, and representing nearly 90 percent of the monies bid, have proposed that the U.S. Government
and
NextWave work to immediately reach a settlement that would preserve the results of Auction No. 35. The Federal Communications
Commission cancelled NextWave's licenses when it defaulted on its payments for the licenses in 1998.

Letter to U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft -

The purpose of this letter is to offer the cooperation of Alaska Native Wireless, Dobson Communications Corporation, Verizon
Wireless, VoiceStream
Wireless, and Salmon PCS, five of the largest bidders in the Federal Communications Commission's reauction of PCS spectrum
(Auction No. 35), to achieve an immediate settlement of the NextWave litigation that would preserve the results of the
reauction.

Read the Full Document

Legal Authority Supporting Mechanism for Nextwave Settlement - Executive Summary -
This memorandum discusses the legal basis for a possible settlement between NextWave Personal Communications
Inc. ("NextWave"), the Government and the Auction No. 35 winners regarding the PCS licenses originally licensed to
NextWave.

Read the Full Document in PDF Format

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