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                                                              PUBLIC NOTICE

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
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                                                                DA 98-792
                                                           April 24, 1998
                                                                         
              WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS BUREAU ANNOUNCES
             POSTPONEMENT OF GENERAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
                         SERVICE (GWCS) AUCTION
                                     
              GWCS Auction Originally Scheduled for May 27
                                    
Report No. AUC-98-19-B (Auction No. 19)

     The General Wireless Communications Service ("GWCS") auction, previously
scheduled to begin May 27, 1998, will be postponed until further notice.  The Commission
will not accept short-form applications (FCC Form 175); any such applications on file will be
returned.  The Wireless Telecommunications Bureau will announce a revised schedule for the
GWCS auction, including revised short-form filing and upfront payment deadlines, in
subsequent public notices.

     To keep apprised of the FCC's auction schedule, reports and orders, public notices,
and all other relevant auction-related documents, the FCC strongly advises that all interested
parties regularly visit its Internet web site.  The World Wide Web address for the Auctions
Home Page is: http://www.fcc.gov/wtb/auctions.html.

     For further information contact Kathy Garland or Arthur Lechtman, Auctions and
Industry Analysis Division, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, at (202) 418-0660.

Media Contact: Meribeth McCarrick, 418-0654.


  -FCC-