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Federal Communications Commission BA A 04-945
Before the
Federal Communications Commission
Washington, D.C. 20554
In the matter of )
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Applications to Assign Wireless
Licenses from WorldCom, Inc. ) WT Docket No. 03-203
(Debtor-in-Possession) to Nextel
Spectrum Acquisition Corp.
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MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
Adopted: April 2,2004 Released: April 2,2004
By the Chiefs, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, Media Bureau:
I. INTRODUCTION
1. We have before us twenty related applications filed August 15, 2003, from subsidiaries of
WorldCom, Inc. (debtor-in-possession) (collectively, "WorldCom D-I-P") and Nextel Spectrum
Acquisition Corp. ("Nextel" and, together with WorldCom D-I-P, the "Applicants") seeking approval for
the assignment from WorldCom D-I-P to Nextel of various wireless licenses (the "Assignment
Applications").' The licenses subject to this proposed assignment ("Licenses") are in the following
services: Multipoint Distribution Service ("MDS"), Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service
("MMDS"), Instructional Television Fixed Services ("ITFS"), Wireless Communications Service
("WCS"), Private Operational-Fixed Microwave and Point-to-Point Common Carrier Microwave Service
(together, "Fixed Microwave"), Private Land Mobile Radio Service ("PLMR"), and Cable Television
Relay Service ("CARS").2 As discussed below, we deny the Petitions to Deny filed by Instructional
Telecommunications Foundation, Inc. ("ITF'), Northwest Communications, Inc. ("NCr'), and, jointly,
Red New York E Partnership and Veritas, LLC ("Red NY/Veritas") (collectively, "Petitioners").3
Pursuant to our review under Section 310(d) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended (the
"Communications Act"), we further conclude that approval of the Assignment Applications will serve the
1 File Nos. 20030818AAC, 20030826AAA, 0001398518, CAR-20030902AA-08, CAR-20030903AA-08 through
CAR-2003090AN-08, 0001394749, and 0001397470, filed August 15, 2003. See Commission Seeks Comment on
Applications to Assign Wireless Licenses from WorldCom, Inc. (Debtor-in-Possession) to Nextel Spectrum
Acquisition Corp., Public Notice, 18 FCC Red 19,313 (2003) ("Public Notice").
2 Assignment Applications at 1.
3 Petition to Deny filed by Instructional Telecommunications Foundation, Inc., WT Docket No. 03-203 (Oct. 27,
2003) ("ITF Petition"); Petition to Deny filed by Northwest Communications, Inc., WT Docket No. 03-203 (Oct. 27,
2003) ("NCI Petition"); Petition to Deny filed jointly by Red New York E Partnership and Veritas LLC, WT Docket
No. 03-203 (Oct. 27, 2003) ("Red NY/Veritas Petition").6232
Federal Communications Commission
DA 04-945
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