NEWSReport No. WT 96-12      WIRELESS TELECOM ACTION              July 11, 1996

                              FCC AFFIRMS DENIAL OF WAIVER REQUESTS IN 
THE FIRST AUCTION OF IVDS LICENSES

       In the context of the payment rules for the first IVDS auction, the FCC has denied
four petitions for reconsideration of Commission action, and has dismissed a fifth petition as
repetitious.  On July 28 and 29, 1994, the Commission held the first auction of IVDS
licenses.  Pursuant to auction rules, the deadline for the initial down payment required of
"small business" winning bidders was set at August 8, 1994.  Certain winning bidders failed
to meet that payment deadline and submitted requests for waiver of the deadline.  By Order
adopted pursuant to delegated authority, those requests were denied on October 7, 1994.  For
the five subject petitioners, the Commission affirmed those determinations by Memorandum
Opinion and Order released September 1, 1995.  The present action affirms the
Commission's determinations in that previous Memorandum Opinion and Order.

       Action by the Commission June 18, 1996 by Memorandum Opinion and Order 
(FCC 96-271).  Chairman Hundt, Commissioners Quello, Ness and Chong.

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