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                            Before the
                Federal Communications Commission
                      Washington, D.C. 20554



In the Matter of                   )
                              )
RADIOFONE, INC.                    )    Reply to:  7110-02 
                              )    
                              )
Request for Waiver of the               )
Commission's Interim Paging             )
Application Criteria                    )         




                            ORDER  



   Adopted:  September 21, 1999         Released:  September 21, 1999

By the Deputy Chief, Policy and Rules Branch, Commercial Wireless Division, Wireless Telecommunications
Bureau:  

     1.   On April 22, 1997, Radiofone, Inc. (Radiofone) filed a petition for reconsideration of a March
24, 1997 decision by the Licensing Division of the Land Mobile Branch (Branch), Private Radio Bureau,
denying Radiofone's request for a waiver of the paging expansion provisions as established by the
Commission's First Report and Order (Order), in WT Docket No. 96-18, released April 23, 1996. 
Specifically, the Order permits incumbent paging licensees to submit applications for additional stations which
are located within 65 km (40 miles) of authorized and operational co-channel facilities licensed to the applicant. 
Radiofone requested a waiver to file expansion applications for stations which are within 65 km (40 miles) of
co-channel facilities which are not yet constructed and operational. 
      
     2.   Radiofone presents no arguments in its Petition that would lead us to change the Branch's
decision.  We therefore affirm the Branch's decision for the reasons stated therein.







     3.   Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that pursuant to authority delegated by sections 4(i) and 405
of the Communications Act, as amended, 47 U.S.C.  154(i), 405, and by sections 0.331 and 1.106 of the
Commission's rules, 47 C.F.R.  0.3331, 1.106, the petition for reconsideration, filed by Radiofone, Inc. on
April 22, 1997, IS DENIED.

                              FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


                              Cynthia S. Thomas
                              Deputy Chief, Policy and Rules Branch
                              Commercial Wireless Division
                              Wireless Telecommunications Bureau