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

In the Matter of                )
                                )
Thomas A. Fowler (WPFN758)      )        
Gayle R. Bailey (WPFF694)       )
Dan Davis (WPFS916)             )
Mark W. Strong (WPFX270)        )
Louis M. Rahhal (WPFU477)       )
Gloria Alexander (WPFT935)      )
                                )
Requests for Reconsideration of the)
Cancellation of Specialized Mobile Radio)
Licenses                        )       
                                 

                                 
                    ORDER ON RECONSIDERATION


   Adopted:  December 3, 1999           Released:  December 3, 1999

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

     1.   In this Order on Reconsideration, we deny the Petition for Reconsideration (Petition) filed on
November 18, 1998 by Mobex South Carolina, Inc. (Mobex) of the decision to cancel the above-captioned
licenses.  Mobex, the prospective assignee of the above-captioned licenses, argues that the licenses were
incorrectly cancelled by the Commission.  For the reasons set forth below, we deny the Petition.

     2.   Mobex's Petition is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the Commission's rules and
therefore must be denied.  All of the above-captioned licenses were granted between May 2, 1994 and January
2, 1995.  Pursuant to the Commission's rules in place at that time, licensees were required to construct and
place their facilities in operation no later than eight months from the date of the license grant, not twelve
months, as contended by Mobex.  According to our records, none of the licensees filed extension requests prior
to the expiration of their eight-month construction periods.  Moreover, none of the extension requests attached
by Mobex as exhibits to its Petition were filed within eight months of license grant.  Because the extension
requests were untimely filed, the licenses were properly cancelled and the extension requests were properly
denied.  For the same reason, we will not consider Mobex's Petition as a waiver of the construction rules.

     3.   Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that pursuant to sections 4(i) and 405 of the Commission's
rules, 47 U.S.C.  154(i), 405, and sections 0.331, 1.106 and 90.633(c) (1994) of the Commission's rules,
as amended, 47 C.F.R.  0.331, 1.106 and 90.633(c) (1994), the Petition for Reconsideration filed by Mobex
South Carolina, Inc. on November 18, 1998 IS HEREBY DENIED.




                              FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION



                              Paul D'Ari
                              Chief, Policy and Rules Branch
                              Commercial Wireless Division
                              Wireless Telecommunications Bureau