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


In re Application of            )
                                )
WESTERN PAGING I CORPORATION    )  File No. 32609-CD-P/ML-96
                                )  
For Additional Facilities for Paging  ) 
and Radiotelephone Service      )                 
Station KNKL744 on the          )
931.6125 MHz Frequency          )
                                 )



                             ORDER


   Adopted:  October 29, 1999           Released:  October 29, 1999

By the Deputy Chief, Commercial Wireless Division, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau:

     1.   On January 13, 1999, Western Paging I Corporation (Western) filed a petition for
reconsideration (Petition) of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau's December 14, 1998 Order
dismissing the above-captioned application.  For the reasons discussed below, we deny the Petition. 
  
     2.    In the Paging Second Report and Order, the Commission announced that all paging
applications filed after July 31, 1996, would be dismissed.  In its Petition, Western states that it had
entered into three agreements with Western Telepage, Inc. (Telepage) in which Telepage consented to
interference with Western's proposed facilities before July 31, 1996.  Although the three agreements were
executed on June 21, 1996, two of them were not filed with the Commission until May 5, 1998.
Nevertheless, Western maintains that its applications should not have been dismissed as mutually exclusive
because the agreements were executed before July 31, 1996.  We disagree.  The Branch properly processed
all applications filed by July 31, 1996, based on the information provided in those applications as of that
date.  Because two of Western's agreements were filed over twenty-one months after the July 31, 1996
deadline, we deny Western's Petition and affirm the Branch's decision to dismiss the captioned application. 
Finally, section 22.31(e) of the Commission's rules provides that, in applications for multiple sites, if one of
the sites is deemed to be mutually exclusive, the entire application shall be dismissed as such. 

     3.   Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that, pursuant to sections 4(i) and 405 of the
Communications Act, as amended, 47 U.S.C  154(i), 405, and sections 0.331 and 1.106 of the
Commission's rules, 47 C.F.R  0.331, 1.106, the petition for reconsideration filed by Western Paging I
Corporation on January 13, 1999, IS DENIED.


                         FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION



                         William W. Kunze
                         Deputy Chief
                         Commercial Wireless Division
                         Wireless Telecommunications Bureau