AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Alaska Corporations Urge Government to Resolve Wireless-Licenses Auction.
Jul. 26--WASHINGTON--Three Alaska Native corporations and other big bidders in a $17 billion wireless auction -- the results of which were overturned by an appeals court -- are urging the government to settle the matter so they can keep their wireless licenses.
The companies, which won the licenses in an auction that finished in January, laid out steps Wednesday that federal officials can take so that the U.S. Treasury still gets a sizable share of the auction money and other parties are compensated.
That includes cutting a deal with NextWave Communications, the company that originally won the licenses for $4.7 billion several years ago but then went bankrupt and could not pay for them.
The Federal Communications Commission took the licenses back and resold them this year. Companies like Verizon Wireless, VoiceStream Wireless and Alaska Native Wireless, which has ties to AT&T, shelled out billions for the frequencies so they could boost their coverage in big cities.
But an appeals court ruled in June that the FCC shouldn't have revoked NextWave's licenses, saying they were protected by bankruptcy laws. That threw into disarray the results ...
- Alaska Native Wireless Announces Successful Completion Of Federal Spectrum...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 26, 2001 700+ words
...26 /PRNewswire/ -- Alaska Native Wireless, L.L.C., a joint...T Wireless Network, and Alaska Native Wireless, will hold spectrum sufficient...by our partners such as Alaska Native Wireless, we couldn't be better...
- Alaska Native Wireless Announces Withdrawal of Applications for NextWave...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire December 4, 2002 700+ words
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Alaska Native Wireless, L.L.C., a joint venture controlled by three Alaska Native Corporations -- Arctic Slope...consortium represents over 40,000 Alaska Native shareholders, and our participation...
- Alaska Native Wireless Firm Seeks FCC Refund.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News January 9, 2002 700+ words
...Business News Jan. 9--Alaska Native Wireless wants the Federal Communications...the licenses in limbo, Alaska Native Wireless and 12 other successful...disappointing twist for Alaska Native Wireless, which burst onto the telecom...
- Alaska Native Wireless Signs Settlement Agreement for FCC Auction No. 35.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 16, 2001 700+ words
...winning bidders, including Alaska Native Wireless, L.L.C.; and NextWave...the managing members of Alaska Native Wireless. "The settlement means...wireless providers, including Alaska Native Wireless, to provide service to...
- US - AT+T Wireless revises Alaska Native Wireless JV terms.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire November 15, 2002 700+ words
...the terms of its holding in Alaska Native Wireless, which won USDlr2.9 bil...The revised terms call for Alaska Native and AT+T Wireless to make...payments by 30 April 2003 to other Alaska Native investors. The revised terms...
- Industry Giants Slyly Dominate L.A. Wireless Auction.(Cellco Partnership,...
- Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal IBOLD, HANS February 5, 2001 700+ words
...markets have cute, rustic-sounding names like "Alaska Native" and "Salmon," most are substantially owned by...company spent $514 million for its L.A. license. Alaska Native Wireless LLC, in which AT&T Wireless has a 35 percent...
- AT&T Wireless Services Agrees to Amend Terms of Alaska Native Wireless Venture.
- Press release article from: Business Wire November 13, 2002 700+ words
...amp;T Wireless (NYSE:AWE) announced today that it had agreed to amend the terms of its participation in Alaska Native Wireless (ANW), which was the winning bidder on $2.9 billion of wireless licenses in the Federal Communication Commission...
- Carriers Seek Speedy NextWave Settlement.(Dobson Communications Corp., Verizon...
- Magazine article from: Wireless Week July 30, 2001 700+ words
...them for nonpayment. The carriers--Dobson Communications Corp., Verizon Wireless, VoiceStream Wireless, Alaska Native Wireless (of which AT&T Wireless is the majority owner) and Salmon PCS--last week sent a letter to Attorney...
- Alaska Native Firms to Get Refund from AT&T Wireless Deal.
- News wire article from: Anchorage Daily News (Anchorage, AK) November 14, 2002 700+ words
...investors in Anchorage-based Alaska Native Wireless will receive $233 million...Slope and the spokesman for Alaska Native Wireless. The Native firms, based...amp;T owns 40 percent of Alaska Native Wireless. The three Native corporations...
- Alaska Native Regional Corporation Returns to Profitability.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News February 17, 2003 700+ words
...selections made under the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, McNeil...joint-venture with two other Alaska Native corporations, Arctic Slope...licenses. The venture, known as Alaska Native Wireless, won licenses in the rebidding...