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$//PN,PETITION TO DENY AGAINST BROADBAND PCS A AND B,DA 95-1170//$
$/ 1.1208 Restricted proceedings/$
                                                                                May 26, 1995


PETITION TO DENY AGAINST BROADBAND PCS A AND B BLOCK APPLICANTS
          AND RELATED REQUESTS TO STAY A AND B BLOCK LICENSING TREATED AS
RESTRICTED PROCEEDINGS UNDER COMMISSION EX PARTE RULES 


     On May 12, 1995, a Petition to Deny and Request for Stay was filed by the National
Association of Black Owned Broadcasters, Percy Sutton, and the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People (collectively, "NABOB").  The Petition seeks denial of all
applications for broadband PCS licenses in the A and B blocks.  Also on May 12, 1995,
NABOB filed an Application for Review and Request for Stay in connection with the
Wireless Telecommunications Bureau's April 12, 1995 decision denying an earlier motion by
Communications One, Inc. to stay licensing of the A and B blocks.  (Order, PP Docket 93-
253, DA 95-806, adopted April 12, 1995) ("COI Order").  Finally, on May 12, 1995,
Communications One and GO Communications Corporation jointly filed a Petition for
Reconsideration of the COI Order.

     Under the Commission's rules, the NABOB Petition to Deny makes the A and B block
licensing proceedings restricted proceedings in which ex parte communications are prohibited. 
47 C.F.R.  1.1208.  Because the issues raised in the other pleadings referenced above are
sufficiently interrelated with those raised by the NABOB Petition, all these proceedings will
also be treated as restricted.  Accordingly, the Bureau will treat the NABOB Petition to Deny
and Request for Stay, the NABOB Application for Review and Request for Stay, and the
COI/GO Petition for Reconsideration as restricted proceedings.  Therefore, effective as of the
date of this Notice, under Sections 1.1202(b) and 1.1208, no written presentations relating to
the merits or outcome of any of these pleadings may be made unless served on all of the
petitioners, all A and B block auction winners, and all parties who have filed formal pleadings
in the A and B block licensing proceedings, the COI Order proceeding, or the COI Order
reconsideration.  Similarly, effective as of the date of this Notice, no oral presentations may
be made unless advance notice and an opportunity to be present is provided to all of the
above-listed parties.  47 C.F.R.  1.1202(b) & 1.1208.  All other portions of PP Docket No.
93-253 will remain non-restricted. 

Action by Chief, Commercial Wireless Division, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau.

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