NEWS
                                                            July
22, 1997


           JON GARCIA TO LEAD PCS FINANCING ISSUES TASK FORCE
                                    

     Jon Garcia of the Commission's Office of Plans and Policy
will lead a Task Force on
Personal Communications Services (PCS) C and F Block Financing
Issues.  

     The Task Force, which also includes representatives from the
Commission's Wireless
Telecommunications Bureau and Office of General Counsel, will
evaluate proposals for
alternative financing arrangements submitted by PCS C and F block
licensees and
recommend to the Commission how to respond to those proposals in
an expeditious manner.

     By Public Notice dated June 2, 1997, the Wireless
Telecommunications Bureau, at the
request of several licensees, invited interested parties to
comment on a number of issues
concerning PCS financing terms.  In addition to establishing a
comment period cycle ending
on July 8, 1997, the Bureau held a public forum on June 30, 1997
to discuss the issues of
debt restructuring and the current capital markets for financing
these licenses.

     Mr. Garcia, who received his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law
School, holds an
M.Sc. (with distinction) from the London School of Economics and
an A.B. (honors) from
Georgetown University.  He was previously a consultant with
McKinsey & Company in
Washington, D.C. and an attorney with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind,
Wharton & Garrison in the
firm's Washington, D.C. office.


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