PUBLIC NOTICE

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
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                                                     DA 99-1714
                                     Released:  August 25, 1999
                                                               
   WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS BUREAU TO HOLD A PUBLIC FORUM
SEPTEMBER 14, 1999 ON UNIVERSAL LICENSING SYSTEM (ULS) MANDATORY
ELECTRONIC FILING REQUIREMENT FOR COMMERCIAL WIRELESS APPLICANTS
                                

     On September 14, 1999, the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC's) Wireless
Telecommunications Bureau (WTB) will host a public forum on the Universal Licensing System (ULS) for
wireless applicants and licensees in commercial services that are now subject to the ULS mandatory
electronic filing requirement.  The forum is part of WTB's continuing effort to ease the transition to ULS
for wireless services and to obtain comment on system performance and potential improvements. 

     In a Public Notice (DA 99-1228) released June 23, 1999, WTB reminded applicants and licensees
that applications in the following services must be submitted electronically beginning July 1, 1999: Paging
and Radiotelephone Service, Offshore Radiotelephone Service, Auctioned LMDS, PCS and WCS,
Auctioned 800 MHz SMR, Auctioned 220 MHz Service, Cellular Radiotelephone Service, and Auctioned
LMS.  WTB invites those who are responsible for filing applications, researching applications, and
researching licenses in these radio services to provide the Bureau input regarding their experiences with
ULS.  The Bureau is particularly interested in questions, suggestions and comments that will help us better
serve the public in the following areas: customer service, online data entry, application research, license
research, and Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) registration.  Key Bureau staff will be on hand to
record and answer individual questions.  

     The Aircraft, GMRS, Microwave and Amateur services, while they have or will have been
deployed in ULS at the time of the public forum, will not be addressed at the forum because the mandatory
electronic filing requirement either does not apply or (in the case of auctionable Microwave services) is not
yet in effect for those services.  WTB plans to hold a similar public forum on those services at a later date.

     The public forum will take place in the Commission Meeting Room from 10:00 A.M. to
12:00 P.M. local eastern time on September 14, 1999, at 445 12th St., SW, Washington, DC. 
Participants are encouraged to submit questions on the above-referenced topics and on other
issues that they would like to see addressed at the forum.  Issues and questions should be
submitted by September 10, 1999, to Tonya Savage at (202) 418-0596, or via e-mail at
tmsavage@fcc.gov.  Parties interested in attending the public forum should notify Tonya Savage
as soon as possible and provide their name, organization or firm, telephone number, and email (if
applicable).