RECORD ONLY
$//Amendment of Parts 21 & 74-Filing Rules in MDS & ITFS, DA 95-18//$

$/1.46 Motions for extension of time/$
$/1.415 Comments and replies/$
$/1.2101 et seq. Competitive Bidding Proceedings/$
$/21.6 Filing of applications, fees, and number of copies/$
$/21.7 Standard application form for domestic public fixed radio service/$
$/21.900 et seq. Multipoint Distribution Service/$
$/74.910 Part 73 application requirements pertaining to ITFS stations/$
$/74.911 Processing of ITFS station applications/$

                                Before the
                       FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION         DA 95-18 
                          Washington, D.C.  20554


In the Matter of                     )
                                     )
Amendment of Parts 21 and 74 of the  )
Commission's Rules With Regard to    )  MM Docket No. 94-131
Filing Procedures in the Multipoint  )
Distribution Service and in the      )
Instructional Television Fixed Service)
                                     )
and                                  )
                                     )            
Implementation of Section 309(j) of the)     PP Docket No. 93-253
Communications Act - Competitive Bidding)

                                     
                     ORDER GRANTING EXTENSION OF TIME
                  FOR FILING COMMENTS AND REPLY COMMENTS

Adopted:  January 4, 1995       Released:  January 6, 1995

By the Chief, Mass Media Bureau:

     1.  On December 1, 1994, the Commission released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
(Notice), FCC 94-293, 9 FCC Rcd 7665 (1994), 59 Fed. Reg. 63,743 (Dec. 9, 1994), in this
proceeding, soliciting comment on revisions to our rules and procedures that will improve
the Multipoint Distribution Service (MDS) application processes.  The filing date for
comments is currently January 9, 1995, and the date for filing reply comments is currently
January 24, 1995.  

     2.  On January 3, 1995, the Wireless Cable Association International, Inc. (WCAI)
filed a request for an extension of time to submit comments in this proceeding.  WCAI
requests that the time afforded interested parties to submit comments be extended by two
weeks, to January 23, 1995, and the time afforded for filing reply comments be extended to
February 7, 1995.  WCAI states that the Commission, in this Notice, proposes a wide variety
of rule changes to govern the auctioning of MDS licenses and to regulate the provision of
MDS services in the future.  Of particular concern to WCAI is a possible change in the
definition of protected service area for MDS stations.  WCAI asserts that it has been working
diligently to develop a proposal that will accommodate the Commission's goals without
unduly restricting the wireless cable industry, and believes that it will be able to achieve a
consensus at a quarterly meeting of the WCAI Board of Directors scheduled for January 10,
1995.

     3.  Pursuant to Section 1.46 of the Commission's rules, 47 C.F.R. Section 1.46, it is
our policy that extensions of time for filing comments in rulemaking proceedings shall not be
routinely granted.  However, under the circumstances described above, we believe that this
brief extension of time to file comments and reply comments is warranted in light of the
complexity of technical issues raised in this proceeding.  Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED,
that the request for extension of time filed by the Wireless Cable Association International,
Inc. IS GRANTED, the time for filing comments in this proceeding IS EXTENDED to
January 23, 1995, and the time for filing reply comments in this proceeding IS EXTENDED
to February 7, 1995.

     4.  This action is taken pursuant to Sections 4(i) and 303(r) of the Communications
Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. Sections 4(i) and 303(r), and Sections 0.204(b), 0.283
and 1.415 of the Commission's rules, 47 C.F.R. Sections 0.204(b), 0.283 and 1.415.

                         FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION



                         Roy J. Stewart
                         Chief, Mass Media Bureau