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Transfer of control of licenses of Voicestream Wireless Corporation And Cook Inlet Region, Inc. Record Documents | Applications | Background | Contacts This page provides information on applications to the FCC related to the proposed transfer of control of licenses currently held in a joint venture between Cook Inlet Region, Inc. ("CIRI") and VoiceStream Wireless Corporation ("VoiceStream"). The applicants request constent to transfer control from CIRI to VoiceStream. These applications have been consolidated under WT Dkt. No. 00-207 and the record in the proceeding is accessible through the Electronic Comment Filing System or the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau's Universal Licensing System under lead File No. 0000216961, et al. 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 12/13/00 - Day 50
Below is a list of record documents in reverse chronological order. 12/13/00 11/22/00 10/24/00
10/13/00 amended 10/20/00 10/13/00 9/14/00 amended 10/13/00
CIRI, an Alaska Regional Corporation organized under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, 47 U.S.C. §§ 1601 et seq., and VoiceStream, a Washington corporation, filed applications under sections 214, 310(b)(4), and 310(d) of the Act, 47 U.S.C. §§ 214, 310(b)(4), 310(d), and Section 8149 of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2001, Public Law No. 106-259 ("DOD Act"), seeking Commission consent to a transfer of control of licenses from CIRI to VoiceStream. Section 8149 of the DOD Act amends section 1621 of Public Law 92-204 (43 U.S.C. § 1621), the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, as amended, by inserting the following new subsection (m): These applications were filed in connection with a transaction pursuant to which CIRI subsidiaries Cook Inlet GSM, Inc. ("CIGSM") and Cook Inlet Telecommunications, Inc. ("CITI") will exchange certain membership and partnership in four entities that own, directly or indirectly, twelve Commission wireless licensees for VoiceStream common stock or cash. Currently, these licensee entities are owned 50.1 percent by CIRI subsidiaries and 49.9 percent by VoiceStream subsidiaries. As a result of the transaction, VoiceStream will own 100 percent of the licensees and, therefore, 100 percent of the interests in the licenses and authorizations at issue. Interested parties were invited to comment both on the applications to transfer control and on the application of the amendments to the DOD Act to the transfer of control applications. Because, as a result of the transaction, all of VoiceStream's current foreign ownership will be fully attributable to the licenses, the twelve current licensees filed a request for declaratory ruling to allow the indirect foreign ownership of the wireless common carrier licenses at issue excess of the twenty-five-percent statutory benchmark of 310(b)(4). The foreign ownership interests in VoiceStream are primarily held by four entities. These entities include: Hutchison Telecommunications PCS (USA) Limited ("HTPCSL"), a British Virgin Islands corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa Limited ("Hutchison"), a Hong Kong limited liability holding company (20.56% equity and 13.59% voting); Deutsche Telekom AG ("DT"), a German corporation (11.49% equity and 1.79% voting); Telephone and Data Systems ("TDS"), a Delaware corporation, a portion of which is owned by foreign investors, resulting in an indirect foreign ownership interest attributable to VoiceStream (1.57% equity and 1.14% voting); and Sonera Limited ("Sonera"), a Finnish corporation (6.98% equity and 8.69% voting). These applications pertain to broadband PCS and Wireless Communications Service ("WCS") licenses and an international 214 authorization.
For further information, contact Lauren Kravetz or John Branscome, Commercial Wireless Division, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, at (202) 418-7240 (Parts 24 and 27), or Claudia Fox or Justin Connor, Telecommunications Division, International Bureau, at (202) 418-1460 (international 214, section 310(b)(4)). |
last reviewed/updated on 10/5/01 |
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