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Supreme Court may decide fate of wireless expansion.(NextWave Telecom still contesting Federal Communications action)(Brief Article)
Purchasing, September, 2001
Wireless companies' expansion plans are now tangled up in a legal case that threatens to persist into next year if the Supreme Court agrees to take it up for review. Industry sources say the delay could mean growing spectrum crowding in some areas of the country that is causing more failed and dropped calls.
The case involves a four-year battle between the FCC and NextWave Telecom, now in bankruptcy proceedings. The government claims NextWave failed to pay $4.2 billion it owed for licenses it won at an FCC auction in 1996. At the time, it was required to pay only 10% down. The FCC subsequently revoked NextWave's licenses and re-auctioned them last January for almost $16 billion. Among the winning bidders were Verizon Wireless, VoiceStream, Dobson...
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