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 FEDERAL  COMMUNICATIONS  COMMISSION  Washington  DC  20554 
 April  14,  2003  DA  03-  1144 
 By  Fax  and  U.  S.  Certified  Mail  Return/  Receipt 
 John  T.  Scott,  III  Vice  President  and  Deputy  General 
 Counsel  –  Regulatory  Law  Verizon  Wireless 
 1300  I  Street,  N.  W.,  Suite  400  West  Washington,  D.  C.  20005-  3354 


 Re:  In  the  Matter  of  NextWave  Personal  Communications  Inc.  and  NextWave  Power  Partners  Inc. 
 Dear  Mr.  Scott: 
 This  addresses  the  Notice  of  Withdrawal  From  Certain  Pleadings,  filed  in  the  above-  captioned  matter  by  Cellco  Partnership  d/  b/  a  Verizon  Wireless  (“  Verizon  Wirelesss”)  on  January  15,  2003.  These  pleadings 
 are  listed  in  Attachment  A  to  this  letter  (“  Pleadings”). 
 Verizon  Wireless  filed  the  Pleadings  in  connection  with  certain  matters  relating  to  Auction  No.  35,  in  which  Verizon  Wireless  was  one  of  the  winning  bidders.  On  November  14,  2002,  the  Commission 
 announced  that  it  would  allow  eligible  winners  in  Auction  No.  35  the  option  to  request  the  dismissal  of  their  pending  applications  for  C  and  F  block  Broadband  Personal  Communications  Services  (“  PCS”) 
 licenses  for  spectrum  that  previously  had  been  licensed  to  NextWave  Personal  Communications  Inc.,  NextWave  Power  Partners  Inc.,  or  Urban  Comm-  North  Carolina,  Inc.  1  Verizon  Wireless  filed  a  request 
 that  its  pending  applications  for  eighty  (80)  C  and  F  block  PCS  licenses  be  dismissed.  The  Wireless  Telecommunications  Bureau  reviewed  Verizon  Wireless’  request  and  granted  the  dismissal  of  its 
 remaining  pending  applications  on  December  3,  2002.  2 


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 In  the  Matter  of  Disposition  of  Down  Payment  and  Pending  Applications  By  Certain  Winning  Bidders  in  Auction  No.  35,  Requests  for  Refunds  of  Down  Payments  Made  In  Auction  No.  35,  Order  and  Order  on  Reconsideration, 


 17  FCC  Rcd  23354  (2002). 
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 See  Wireless  Telecommunications  Bureau  Grants  Dismissal  Requests  of  Eligible  Auction  No.  35  Winners  and  Dismisses  Applications  for  156  C  and  F  Block  Broadband  Personal  Communications  Services  (PCS)  Licenses, 


 Public  Notice,  DA  02-  3340,  at  1,  Attachment  A  (rel.  Dec.  3,  2002). 
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 Verizon  Wireless  states  that  it  withdraws  its  support  for  the  Pleadings  in  light  of  the  Commission’s  grant  of  its  request  for  dismissal  of  its  remaining  pending  applications  in  Auction  No.  35.  Accordingly, 
 pursuant  to  section  0.331  of  the  Commission’s  rules,  3  we  approve  Verizon  Wireless’  request  to  withdraw  the  Pleadings. 


 Sincerely, 
 Linda  C.  Ray  Deputy  Chief,  Policy  and  Rules  Branch 
 Commercial  Wireless  Division  Wireless  Telecommunications  Bureau 


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 47  C.  F.  R.  §  0.331. 
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