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

In the Matter of                     )
                                     )
                                     )
Mobile Communications Service, Inc.         )          File No. 93F697
                                     )
Finder's Preference Request         )
For Specialized Mobile Radio         )
Station WNYJ431, Licensed to         )
Robert Fetterman at Meadville, Pa            )




                  MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER



   Adopted:  December  21, 1999         Released: December 22, 1999

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

1.     On November 22, 1999, the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau's Commercial Wireless
Division issued a Memorandum Opinion and Order, DA 99-2581, granting a Petition for Reconsideration
filed by Mobile Communications Service, Inc (Mobile) of a decision by the Bureau's Office of
Operations denying a finder's preference request.  However, on November 3, 1999 Mobile had filed a
request to dismiss the original finder's  preference request.  As that dismissal request had been filed
prior to our Order granting the petition, we hereby rescind the Order and dismiss the Petition for
Reconsideration as Moot. 

2.     Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that, pursuant to sections 4(i) and 405 of the
Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C.  154(i) and 405, and sections 0.331 and 1.106 of
the Commission's rules, 47 C.F.R.  0.331 and 1.106, the withdrawal of the finder's preference request 
filed by Mobile Communications Service, Inc. on November 3, 1999 is ACCEPTED and the November
24, 1999 request to withdraw said request is DENIED. 

3.     IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that, pursuant to sections 4(i) and 405 of the Communications
Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C.  154(i) and 405, and sections 0.331 and 1.106 of the
Commission's rules, 47 C.F.R.  0.331 and 1.106, the Memorandum Opinion and Order, DA 99-2581,
in the above-captioned Finder's Preference Case, No. 93F697, IS SET ASIDE, and the Petition for
Reconsideration IS DISMISSED as MOOT.

4.     IT IS FURTHER ORDERED THAT the license for Station WNYJ431 issued to Robert
Fetterman REINSTATED.  





                                                       Federal Communications Commission



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