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                         Before the
             Federal Communications Commission
                  Washington, D.C.  20554
  
  
  
  In re Applications of:                  )
                                )    WT Dkt. No. 00-81
  SBC Communications Inc. and             )
  BellSouth Corporation                   )              
                                )
  For Waiver of                      )
  47 C.F.R.  1.948(c)(1)(iii) and (c)         )
  
  
  
                           ORDER 
  
  Adopted: June 16, 2000                  Released: June 19, 2000
  
  By the Deputy Chief, Commercial Wireless Division, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau:
  
  1.   This Order grants a Petition for Waiver ("Petition") of sections 1.948(c)(1)(iii)
  and (d) of the Commission's rules, filed by SBC Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corporation
  ("Applicants") on May 9, 2000.   Specifically, the Applicants seek a waiver of the thirty-day
  notification requirement for pro forma transfers of control.  For the reasons discussed below, we
  grant the Petition.
  
  2.   On May 4, 2000, applications were filed with the Commission to transfer more
  than 2300 wireless licenses held by the Applicants to a new jointly controlled limited liability
  company ("LLC") ("main transaction").  These applications were placed on public notice on May
  19, 2000.  To facilitate the creation of this new LLC, the Applicants anticipate converting certain
  subsidiary corporations holding or controlling FCC licenses into LLCs ("secondary transactions"). 
  Although the secondary transactions are pro forma in nature, Applicants are required to notify the
  FCC within thirty (30) days of the consummations of those transactions, pursuant to Sections
  1.948(c)(1)(iii) and (d) of the Commission's rules.  In their Petition, Applicants request a waiver so
  that the required notifications concerning secondary transactions can be made 30 days after closing
  the main transaction, rather than 30 days after the secondary transactions.  We note that in their
  Petition, the Applicants do not seek a waiver of filing fees and agree to remit the necessary
  payment for processing of these pro forma notifications. 
  
  3.   We determine that a grant of this waiver is in the public interest.  If the waiver
  were not granted, the Applicants would be required to notify the Commission, seriatim, of
  numerous pro forma changes made during the pendency of the main transaction.  Such a
  requirement would be unduly burdensome to the Applicants and a waiver also "would
  significantly minimize the burden on the Commission's database administration and record keeping
  staff" while still affording the Commission and the public timely notice of the reorganizations
  undertaken.  Therefore, we grant  the Petition.
  
  4.      Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that, pursuant to section 4(i) of the Communications
  Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C.  154(i), and sections 0.331 and 1.925 of the Commission's
  Rules, 47 C.F.R.  0.331 and 1.925, the Petition for Waiver filed on May 9, 2000, by SBC
  Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corporation IS GRANTED.  
  
  
                           FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
  
  
  
                           William Kunze
                           Deputy Chief, Commercial Wireless Division
                           Wireless Telecommunications Bureau