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


In re Application of            )
                                )
WESTERN PAGING I CORPORATION    )  File No. 31987-CD-P/ML-96
                                )  
For Additional Facilities for Paging  ) 
and Radiotelephone Service      )                 
Station KNKL744 on the          )
931.2125 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
previously provided the Branch with information which renders three of the proposed sites grantable, and
that it had entered into two agreements with Western Telepage, Inc. (Telepage) in which Telepage
consented to interference with Western's proposed facilities.  The two agreements were not executed until
April 7, 1998, and were not filed with the Commission until April 14, 1998.  Nevertheless, Western
maintains that its application should not have been dismissed as mutually exclusive.  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 Western's agreements were filed over twenty months after the
July 31, 1996 deadline, we deny Western's Petition and affirm the Branch's decision to dismiss the above-
captioned application.  Although four of the six proposed sites may appear to be grantable, the entire
application is still considered to be mutually exclusive.  This is because 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