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File pnmc5021 (.txt & .wp) is in directory \pub\Public_Notices\Miscellaneous. ************************************************************************* Before the Federal Communications Commission Washington, D.C. 20554 In re Applications of ) ) Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems, Inc. ) File No. 10000-CL-P-003-A-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 003A, Chicago MSA ) ) ) Bay Area Cellular Telephone Company ) File No. 10002-CL-P-007-A-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 007A, San Francisco MSA ) ) ) Florida Cellular Service, Inc. ) File No. 10004-CL-P-012-B-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 012B, Miami MSA ) ) ) Minneapolis SMSA Limited Partnership ) File No. 10005-CL-P-015-B-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 015B, Minneapolis-St.Paul MSA ) ) ) GTE Mobilnet of Oregon Limited Partnership ) File No. 10008-CL-P-030-B-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 030B, Portland, OR/WA MSA ) ) ) Columbus Cellular Telephone Company ) File No. 10009-CL-P-031-A-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 031A, Columbus MSA ) ) Alabama Cellular Service, Inc. ) File No. 10011-CL-P-041-B-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 041B, Birmingham MSA ) ) ) Virginia Cellular Limited Partnership ) File No. 10012-CL-P-043-B-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 043B, Norfolk-Virginia Beach- ) Portsmouth MSA ) ) ) Contel Cellular of Nashville, Inc. ) File No. 10013-CL-P-046-A-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 046A, Nashville-Davidson MSA ) ) ) Triad Metronet, Inc. ) File No. 10014-CL-P-047-A-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 047A, Greensboro-Winston ) Salem-High Point MSA ) ) ) Chicago SMSA Limited Partnership ) File No. 10016-CL-P-054-B-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 054B, Gary-Hammond-East ) Chicago MSA ) ) ) Virginia Cellular Limited Partnership ) File No. 10017-CL-P-059-B-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 059B, Richmond MSA ) ) ) ) ALLTEL Mobile Communications of the ) File No. 10018-CL-P-061-B-93 Carolinas, Inc. ) ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 061B, Charlotte MSA ) ) Carolina Metronet, Inc. ) File No. 10019-CL-P-071-A-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 071A, Raleigh-Durham MSA ) ) ) Century Cellunet of Lansing ) File No. 10022-CL-P-078-B-93 Limited Partnership ) ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 078B, East Lansing MSA ) ) ) El Paso Cellular Telephone Company ) File No. 10023-CL-P-081-A-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 081A, El Paso MSA ) ) ) Contel Cellular of the South, Inc. ) File No. 10024-CL-P-083-B-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 083B, Mobile MSA ) ) ) South Carolina Metronet, Inc. ) File No. 10026-CL-P-090-A-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area ) in Cellular Market 090A, Charleston- ) North Charleston MSA ) ) McCaw Communications of Nevada, Inc. ) File No. 10027-CL-P-093-A-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 093A, Las Vegas, NV MSA ) ) ) Flint Cellular Telephone Company ) File No. 10028-CL-P-094-A-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 094A, Saginaw-Bay City- ) Midland MSA ) ) ) Binghamton MSA Limited Partnership ) File No. 10032-CL-P-122-B-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 122B, Binghamton MSA ) ) ) Santa Barbara Cellular Systems, Ltd. ) File No. 10033-CL-P-124-A-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 124A, Santa Barbara- ) Santa Maria-Lompoc MSA ) ) ) GTE Mobilnet of California Limited Partnership ) File No. 10034-CL-P-126-B-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 126B, Salinas-Seaside- ) Monterey MSA ) ) ) Rockford MSA Limited Partnership ) File No. 10036-CL-P-131-B-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 131B, Rockford, IL MSA ) ) ) ) Visalia Cellular Telephone Company ) File No. 10037-CL-P-150-A-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 150A, Visalia-Tulare- ) Porterville MSA ) ) ) Roanoke MSA Limited Partnership ) File No. 10038-CL-P-157-B-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 157B, Roanoke MSA ) ) ) GTE Mobilnet of California Limited Partnership ) File No. 10041-CL-P-175-B-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 175B, Santa Cruz MSA ) ) ) SBMS Cellular Telecommunications ) File No. 10042-CL-P-176-A-93 Springfield, Inc. ) ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 176A, Springfield MSA ) ) ) MobileTel, Inc. ) File No. 10043-CL-P-184-B-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 184B, Houma-Thibodaux MSA ) ) ) Champaign CellTelCo ) File No. 10046-CL-P-196-A-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 196A, Champaign-Urbana- ) Rantoul MSA ) ) ) ) Cumberland Cellular Telephone Company ) File No. 10047-CL-P-209-A-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 209A, Clarksville- ) Hopkinsville MSA ) ) ) Wilmington Cellular Communications, Inc. ) File No. 10048-CL-P-218-A-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 218A, Wilmington NC MSA ) ) ) Abilene SMSA Limited Partnership ) File No. 10050-CL-P-220-B-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 220B, Abilene MSA ) ) ) Tuscaloosa Cellular Partnership ) File No. 10051-CL-P-222-A-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 222A, Tuscaloosa MSA ) ) ) Florence Cellular Telephone Company, Inc. ) File No. 10053-CL-P-226-A-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 226A, Florence MSA ) ) ) Mississippi Cellular Telephone Company ) File No. 10055-CL-P-252-B-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 252B, Pascagoula MSA ) ) ) Midland/Odessa SMSA Limited Partnership ) File No. 10056-CL-P-255-B-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 255B, Odessa MSA ) ) ) Florence Metronet, Inc. ) File No. 10057-CL-P-264-A-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 264A, Florence MSA ) ) ) Albany Telephone Company ) File No. 10058-CL-P-266-A-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 266A, Glens Falls MSA ) ) ) Chicago SMSA Limited Partnership ) File No. 10059-CL-P-273-B-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 273B, Kankakee MSA ) ) ) Evansville MSA Limited Partnership ) File No. 10061-CL-P-293-B-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 293B, Owensboro MSA ) ) ) Midland/Odessa SMSA Limited Partnership ) File No. 10063-CL-P-295-B-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 295B, Midland MSA ) ) ) Alton Cellular, Inc. ) File No. 10064-CL-P-305-B-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 305B, Alton-Granite City MSA ) ) Dayton Cellular Telephone Company ) File No. 10010-CL-P-040-A-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 040A, Dayton MSA ) ) ) Gary Cellular Telephone Company ) File No. 10015-CL-P-054-A-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 054A, Gary-Hammond- ) East Chicago MSA ) ) ) ACC/McCaw Cellular of Fresno ) File No. 10020-CL-P-074-A-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 074A, Fresno MSA ) ) ) Lansing Cellular Telephone Company ) File No. 10021-CL-P-078-A-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 078A, Lansing MSA ) ) ) Chattanooga Cellular Telephone Company ) File No. 10025-CL-P-088-A-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 088A, Chattanooga MSA ) ) ) Contel Cellular of Kentucky, Inc. ) File No. 10030-CL-P-116-A-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 116A, Lexington-Fayette MSA ) ) ) Huntsville MSA Limited Partnership ) File No. 10031-CL-P-120-B-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 120B, Huntsville MSA ) ) ) Contel Cellular of the South, Inc. ) File No. 10035-CL-P-127-B-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 127B, Pensacola MSA ) ) ) McAllen-Edinburg-Mission SMSA ) File No. 10040-CL-P-162-B-93 Limited Partnership ) ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 162B, Brownsville- ) Harlingen MSA ) ) ) GTE Mobilnet of Terre Haute Limited ) File No. 10044-CL-P-185-B-93 Partnership ) ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 185B, Terre Haute MSA ) ) ) Amarillo SMSA Limited Partnership ) File No. 10045-CL-P-188-B-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 188B, Amarillo MSA ) ) ) Medford Cellular Telephone Company, Inc. ) File No. 10054-CL-P-229-A-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 229A, Medford MSA ) ) ) ) Contel Cellular of the Southwest, Inc. ) File No. 10060-CL-P-285-B-93 ) For a Construction Permits for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 285B, Las Cruces MSA ) ) ) Contel Cellular of Davenport, Inc. ) File No. 10029-CL-P-098-B-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 98B, Davenport- ) Rock Island-Moline MSA ) ) ) Brown County MSA Cellular Limited Partnership ) File No. 06213-CL-CP-93 ) For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 186B, Green Bay, ) Wisconsin MSA ) ) ) Redding Cellular Partnership ) File Nos. 06218-CL-CP-93 ) 00640-CL-CP-94 For a Construction Permit for Unserved Area in ) Cellular Market 254A, Redding, California MSA ) MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER Adopted: November 1, 1996 Released: November 4 , 1996 By the Chief, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau: I. INTRODUCTION 1. In this Order, we address four Petitions for Reconsideration (Petitions) involving the above-captioned proceedings filed on March 3, March 14, April 5, and April 18, 1994, by the Committee for Effective Cellular Rules ("CECR"), requesting that any grants of the captioned applications be expressly conditioned on the final disposition of CECR's Petition for Review in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit with respect to the Commission's unserved area cellular rules. For the reasons discussed below, we dismiss CECR's Petitions for Reconsideration as moot. II. DISCUSSION 2. In 1992, the Commission adopted the Cellular Unserved Second Report and Order, which modified its licensing rules in the Domestic Public Cellular Radiotelephone Service to require a new method for determining the Cellular Geographic Service Areas (CGSAs) of cellular systems, to allow expansion of the CGSA during the five year build-out period, and to clarify filing requirements for cellular unserved areas. CECR filed a Petition for Reconsideration of the Cellular Unserved Second Report and Order, requesting that the Commission rescind its modification of all cellular licenses and suspend the use of the new mathematical formula as the means of determining CGSAs until the renewal of existing licenses or the issuance of new licenses. CECR claimed that the Commission exceeded its statutory authority by improperly modifying the licenses of existing cellular systems. In 1993, the Commission denied CECR's Petition for Reconsideration. On March 22, 1993, CECR filed a Petition for Review with the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit requesting that the court vacate the Cellular Unserved Second Report and Order and the Memorandum Opinion and Order on Reconsideration. CECR also requested that the Commission and the Court of Appeals stay the grant of any application for new cell sites in Unserved Areas. Both the Commission and the Court of Appeals denied CECR's stay requests. 3. On four separate occasions in 1994, the Commission granted construction permits to a total of sixty unserved area cellular applicants. CECR filed a Petition for Reconsideration (Petition) of each of these grants. Each Petition requested that the Commission explicitly condition the grant of the construction permits upon the final disposition of CECR's Petition for Review with the court. Additionally, each Petition incorporated CECR's previously filed motions for stay by reference. 4. On May 9, 1995, the Court of Appeals dismissed CECR's petition for review and affirmed the Cellular Unserved Order, holding that the Commission did not act arbitrarily and capriciously when it amended its cellular regulations through a notice-and-comment rule making. The court concluded that the Commission acted within its statutory authority when it implemented a service-wide change through its rule making authority to the technical requirements for cellular licenses and significantly reduced the unserved areas. Because the Court of Appeals denied the request for judicial relief upon which CECR's Petitions were based, all of CECR's petitions for reconsideration are rendered moot. Accordingly, we dismiss the petitions in their entirety. III. ORDERING CLAUSES 5. IT IS ORDERED that pursuant to Sections 4(i), 303(r), 309 and 405 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C.  154(i), 303(r), 309 and 405, and Section 22.128 of the Commission's rules, 47 C.F.R.  22.128, and the authority delegated under Section 0.331 of the Commission's rules, 47 C.F.R.  0.331, that the Petitions for Reconsideration filed by the Committee for Effective Cellular Rules on March 3, 1994, March 14, 1994, April 5, 1994, April 11, 1994 and April 18, 1994 respectively ARE DISMISSED as moot. 6. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that pursuant to Sections 4(i), 303(r), 309 and 405 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C.  154(i), 303(r), 309 and 405, and Section 22.119 of the Commission's rules, 47 C.F.R.  22.119, that waivers of Section 22.105(d) of the Commission's rules, 47 C.F.R.  22.105(d) filed on March 21, 1994 and April 1, 1994 respectively ARE DENIED. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Michele C. Farquhar Chief, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau APPENDIX A PETITION I Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems, Inc. Collectively - SBMS SBMS Cellular Telecomm. Springfield, Inc. Collectively - SBMS Champaign CellTelCo Collectively - SBMS Abilene SMSA L.P. Collectively - SBMS Midland/Odessa SMSA L.P. (2 Markets) Collectively - SBMS Mississippi Cellular Telephone Co. Mississippi Cellular McCaw Communications of Nevada, Inc. Collectively - McCaw Santa Barbara Cellular Systems, Ltd. Collectively - McCaw Visalia Cellular Telephone Co. Collectively - McCaw GTE Mobilnet of Oregon L.P. Collectively - GTEM/CCI Virginia Cellular L.P.(2 Markets) Collectively - GTEM/CCI Contel Cellular of Nashville, Inc. Collectively - GTEM/CCI Triad Metronet, Inc. Collectively - GTEM/CCI Carolina Metronet, Inc. Collectively - GTEM/CCI Contel Cellular of the South, Inc. Collectively - GTEM/CCI South Carolina Metronet, Inc. Collectively - GTEM/CCI Binghamton MSA L.P. Collectively - GTEM/CCI GTE Mobilnet of California L.P. (2 Markets) Collectively - GTEM/CCI Rockford MSA L.P. Collectively - GTEM/CCI Roanoke MSA L.P. Collectively - GTEM/CCI Florence Metronet, Inc. Collectively - GTEM/CCI Tuscaloosa Cellular Partnership Collectively - GTEM/CCI Florence Cellular Telephone Co., Inc. Collectively - GTEM/CCI Evansville MSA L.P. Collectively - GTEM/CCI Alabama Cellular Service, Inc. Alabama Cellular Albany Telephone Co. Albany Telephone ALLTEL Mobile Comm. of the Carolinas, Inc. ALLTEL Alton Cellular, Inc. Alton Cellular Bay Area Cellular Telephone Co. Bay Area Century Cellunet of Lansing L.P. Century Cellunet Chicago SMSA L.P. (2 Markets) Chicago SMSA Columbus Cellular Telephone Co. Columbus Cellular Cumberland Cellular Telephone Co. Cumberland Cellular El Paso Cellular Telephone Co. El Paso Flint Cellular Telephone Co. Flint Cellular Florida Cellular Service, Inc. Florida Cellular Minneapolis SMSA L.P. Minneapolis SMSA MobileTel, Inc. MobileTel Wilmington Cellular Communications, Inc. Wilmington Cellular PETITION II ACC/McCaw Cellular of Fresno Jointly - ACC/McCaw Medford Cellular Telephone Co., Inc. Jointly - ACC/McCaw Gary Cellular Telephone Co. Collectively - Gary Cellular McAllen-Edinburg-Mission SMSA L.P. Collectively - Gary Cellular Amarillo SMSA L.P. Collectively - Gary Cellular Chattanooga Cellular Telephone Co. Collectively - GTEM/CCI Contel Cellular of Kentucky, Inc. Collectively - GTEM/CCI Contel Cellular of the South, Inc. Collectively - GTEM/CCI GTE Mobilnet of Terre Haute L.P. Collectively - GTEM/CCI Contel Cellular of the Southwest, Inc. Collectively - GTEM/CCI Dayton Cellular Telephone Co. Dayton Cellular Huntsville MSA L.P. Huntsville Lansing Cellular Telephone Co. Lansing Cellular PETITION III Contel Cellular of Davenport, Inc. Contel Cellular PETITION IV Brown County MSA Cellular L.P. Brown County Redding Cellular Partnership (2 Markets) Redding Cellular APPENDIX B OPPOSITION TO PETITIONS ACC/McCaw Alabama Cellular Albany Telephone ALLTEL Bay Area Brown County Century Cellunet Contel Cellular El Paso Florida Cellular Gary Cellular GTEM/CCI Huntsville McCaw Mississippi Cellular MobileTel Redding Cellular SBMS