Aug 5, 1996 12:00 PM,

The C Block

Source: BIA Consulting, Chantilly, Va.

Who said PCS was only for the big boys? PCS entrepreneurs bidding in the C block license auction earlier this year slugged it out, almost literally, for 184 bidding rounds over five months and pledged more than $10 billion for their PCS birth rights.

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Together, the earlier A and B auction, which counted the biggest names of the telecom industry among its participants, raised almost $3 billion less. As these A and B licensees continue to build out their networks, the industry's eyes are also turning toward the top C block winners.

TOP 20 BIDDERS BY POPS NextWave Personal Communications 98,391,300 DCR PCS (now Pocket Communications) 35,127,800 GWI PCS 19,533,900 BDPCS (defaulted, licenses re-auctioned) 17,074,400 Omnipoint PCS 13,205,900 PCS 2000 9,542,046 Chase Telecommunications 6,303,200 21st Century Telesis 4,297,200 Wireless PCS 3,366,000 Urban Communicators PCS 3,286,200 Aer Force Communications 3,178,800 Carolina PCS I 3,153,100 Cook Inlet Western Wireless PCS 3,064,700 R&S PCS 2,754,000 Mercury PCS 2,454,900 Mobile Tri-States 2,203,600 Americall International 2,062,600 Meretel Communications 1,880,800 Indus 1,790,400 Fortunet Wireless Communications 1,669,400

DIRECTORY INFORMATION FOR TOP 20 BIDDERS BY POP NextWave Personal Communications 991-C Lomas Sante Fe Drive, Suite 436 Solana Beach, Calif. 92075 Janice Obuchowski, (202) 371-2220

DCR PCS (now Pocket Communications) 2550 M St. NW, Suite 200 Washington, D.C. 20037 James Titzell, (202) 496-4300

GWI PCS 6688 N. Central Expressway, Suite 1170 Dallas, Texas 75206 Marc Martin, (202) 371-7663

BDPCS (defaulted, licenses re-auctioned) 96 Hillbrook Drive Portola Valley, Calif. 94028 Cynthia Worthman, (415) 851-1615

Omnipoint PCS 2000 N. 14th St., Suite 550 Arlington, Va. 22201 Mark O'Connor, (202) 861-6471

PCS 2000 361 San Francisco St., 1st Floor San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901 Javier Lamoso, (809) 723-8300

Chase Telecommunications 15 Greenway Plaza, Suite 15F Houston, Texas 77046 James Johnston, (202) 659-1911

21st Century Telesis 1912 N. Broadway, 1st Floor Santa Ana, Calif. 92706 Philip Chasmore, (714) 648-0401 Wireless PCS 2305 Kelbe Drive Little Chute, Wis. 54140 Carl Artman, (414) 687-2100

Urban Communicators PCS 1333 New Hampshire Ave. NW, Suite 1000 Washington, D.C. 20036 James Winston, (202) 861-0870

Aer Force Communications 350 Stuyvesant Ave. Rye, N.Y. 10580 Victoria Kane, (914) 967-1606

Carolina PCS I 211 S. Washington St. Shelby, N.C. 28150 Jeanne Walsh, (202) 328-4500

Cook Inlet Western Wireless PCS 1966 13th St., Suite 280 Boulder, Colo. 80302 Mark Adolph, (303) 443-5743

R&S PCS 1900 W. Place NE Washington, D.C. 20018 Debra Lee, (202) 608-2448

Mercury PCS 1410 Livingston Lane Jackson, Miss. 39213 Thomas Gutierrez, (202) 828-9470

Mobile Tri-States 100 W. Laurel Ave. Foley, Ala. 36536 Eliot Greenwald, (202) 775-3540

Americall International 135 Oakridge Drive North Prairie, Wis. 53153 Kim Obradovich, (414) 392-2002

Meretel Communications One Lakeshore Dr., Suite 1495 Lake Charles, La. 70629 Dusty Dumas, (318) 436-9000

Indus 250 E. Wisconsin Ave., Suite 800 Milwaukee, Wis. 53202 Richard Kinder, (414) 278-5642

Fortunet Wireless Communications 421 Hudson St., #524 New York, N.Y. 10014 Karen Johnson, (212) 683-1643 Source: BIA Consulting, Chantilly, Va.

TOP 10 MARKETS PER POP U.S. Virgin Islands $76.45 Kahului/Wailuku/Lahaina, Hawaii $67.94 Seattle/Tacoma, Wash. $67.78 Phoenix $65.79 Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas $61.16 Honolulu $61.02 Sacramento $59.50 Washington, D.C. $59.42 San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose, Calif. $59.33 Miami/Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. $56.85

TOP 10 MOST ACTIVE MARKETS (By bids placed) Salt Lake City/Ogden, Utah 535 San Diego 313 San Antonio, Texas 256 Denver 218 Seattle/Tacoma, Wash. 211 Indianapolis 203 Sacramento 202 Kansas City, Mo. 189 Norfolk/Virginia Beach, Va. 165 Las Vegas 158

FAST FACTS Percent of total POPs won by top 10 bidders 78.98% Number of BTAs won by top 10 bidders 212 Average price per POP among top 10 bidders $37.09 Top 10 bidders' percent of total dollars bid 88.05% Total bids in top 10 markets 648 Average price per POP, top 10 markets $51.45 Average bids per market, top 10 markets 65