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

                                     )
In the Matter of                     )
                                     )
Nextwave Personal Communications, Inc.)
For Various C-Block Broadband PCS    )
Licenses                             )
                                     )
                                     

                                  ORDER


   Adopted:  July 23, 1996                                       Released:  July 23, 1996

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

     1.  On May 22, 1996, Nextwave Personal Communications, Inc. (Nextwave), a
successful bidder for a license in the broadband C block personal communications services
(PCS), filed an FCC Form 600 with the Commission.  The Commission released a Public
Notice on May 31, 1996, which listed those C block license applications accepted for filing. 
Petitions to deny any of the listed applications were due on June 30, 1996, oppositions to
petitions to deny were due on July 16, 1996, and replies to the oppositions are due on July
26, 1996.

     2.  On July 1, 1996, Antigone Communications Limited Partnership and PCS Devco,
Inc. (Petitioners) filed a Petition to Dismiss or Deny, or Alternatively to Designate for Oral
Hearing the grant of Nextwave's C block applications (Petition to Dismiss or Deny). 
Nextwave filed an opposition to this Petition to Dismiss or Deny on July 16, 1996.  On the
same day, Nextwave filed an erratum and amendments consisting of an eight page "Second
Amended Exhibit A" and a nineteen page "Second Amended Exhibit B" to their earlier-filed
FCC Form 600.

     3.  On July 17, 1996, Petitioners requested a two-week extension of time, until August
6, 1996, in which to reply to Nextwave's opposition.  Petitioners state that the five-day reply
period is not sufficient to fully review and evaluate the content of the opposition, erratum and
amendments and prepare a complete and accurate reply.  On July 18, 1996, Nextwave filed an
opposition to the request for an extension of time, contending that the Petitioners have not
met their burden to justify such extraordinary relief and that Nextwave will be prejudiced by
the delay.

     4.  We concur with Petitioners that the time remaining in the comment period is
insufficient for commenters to review and respond to Nextwave's erratum and amendments,
because the erratum and amendment relate directly to the subject matter of Nextwave's FCC
Form 600.  We therefore find that, in order to allow Petitioners to respond adequately to
Nextwave's erratum and amendments, a brief extension of time is in the public interest.  We
therefore grant Petitioner's request for an extension.  Accordingly, it is ORDERED that,
pursuant to Section 1.46 of the Commission's rules, 47 C.F.R.  1.46, that the deadline for
filing a Reply in this proceeding IS EXTENDED to August 6, 1996.

                                   FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
                                   


                                   David A. Nall
                                   Acting Chief, Commercial Wireless Division
                                   Wireless Telecommunications Bureau