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AT&T Wireless Services, Inc., Cingular Wireless LLC, Meriwether Communications LLC, and Skagit Wireless, LLC Spectrum Swap Timeline | Record Documents | Applications | Background | Contacts Subsidiaries of AT&T Wireless Services, Inc. (“AWS”), subsidiaries of Cingular Wireless LLC (“Cingular”), Meriwether Communications LLC (“Meriwether”), and Skagit Wireless, LLC (“Skagit”) (collectively, the “Parties”) have filed a series of fourteen applications pursuant to Section 310(d) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, seeking Commission consent to the full and partial assignment of cellular and broadband Personal Communications Services (“PCS”) licenses and authorizations in various markets. This transaction consists of exchanges of full and partial licenses between AWS and Cingular, Cingular and Meriwether, and Cingular and Skagit. These applications have been consolidated under WT Docket No. 03-46, and most of the record in the proceeding is accessible through the Electronic Comment Filing System. Copies of documents in the record may also be obtained for a fee from FCC's duplicating contractor Qualex International, or may be viewed and/or copied at the FCC Reference Center.
Completed 5/14/03 - Day 90
Below is a list of record documents in reverse chronological order.
5/14/03 2/14/03
Assignment Applications To Exchange Licenses from AWS to Cingular
Assignment Applications To Exchange Licenses from Cingular to AWS
Assignment Applications To Exchange Licenses from Cingular to Meriwether
Assignment Applications To Exchange Licenses from Meriwether to Cingular
Assignment Applications To Exchange Licenses from Cingular to Skagit
Assignment Applications To Exchange Licenses from Skagit to Cingular
1/29/03 1/17/03 10/30/01 6/15/01
As a result of this transaction, Cingular will receive 5, 10, or 15 MHz of PCS spectrum in discrete portions of seven states; AWS will receive 10 MHz of broadband PCS spectrum in discrete portions of five states; and Meriwether and Skagit will receive 10 MHz of PCS spectrum in discrete portions of two states. In addition, AWS will receive the cellular block authorization in the Kauai, Hawaii Rural Service Area (“RSA”). Upon consummation of this transaction, Cingular will exit the Kauai RSA, and the current Cingular customers will be transitioned to AWS. AWS intends to provide the Cingular customers in the Kauai market with a minimum of 30-days notice of the transition. The Parties state that, after consummation of this transaction, AWS will directly own and control 25 MHz of cellular spectrum and 10 MHz of PCS spectrum in Kauai. Additionally, AWS has a non-controlling equity interest in ABC Wireless, L.L.C., which holds a 30 MHz PCS license in Kauai. Designated Entity and Entrepreneurial Eligibility Issues The parties state that this transaction will include the assignment of C and F Block PCS licenses to Cingular. The Commission’s Rules state that “[n]o assignment or transfer of control of a license for frequency Block C or frequency Block F won in closed bidding pursuant to the eligibility requirements of § 24.709 will be granted,” except when, among other things, “[t]he application for assignment or transfer of control is filed on or after the date the licensee has notified the Commission pursuant to § 24.203(c) that its five-year construction requirement has been satisfied.” The parties state that the five-year build-out notifications have been filed for all of the C and F block licenses implicated in the assignment applications. Additionally, the parties acknowledge that full payment of the remaining unpaid principal and any unpaid interest accrued through the eventual date of the assignments and any other payments otherwise required by Section 1.2111 of the Commission’s rules will be required to be made immediately prior to closing.
For further information, contact Erin McGrath, Commercial Wireless Division, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, at (202) 418-7240, or Rita Cookmeyer, Auctions and Industry Analysis Division, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, at (202) 418-0660. |
last reviewed/updated on 5/14/03 |
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