Cingular Wireless and VoiceStream filed applications with FCC for...

January 19, 2001 |Miscellaneous

Cingular Wireless and VoiceStream filed applications with FCC for approval of proposed license exchange. Subsidiary of Cingular would exchange PCS spectrum in L.A. and San Francisco for spectrum held by VoiceStream subsidiaries in N.Y. and St. Louis. VoiceStream also proposed giving Cingular license in Detroit now held by Cook Inlet/VoiceStream GSM in exchange for Cingular spectrum in San Francisco. To carry out exchange, some of licenses would be disaggregated or partitioned. Comments are due at FCC Feb. 20, replies March 2.