1.   Analysts expected the license to be awarded to Voditel, a joint bid from Belgian utility Tractebel SA and Vodafone, the biggest European mobile phone operator.

2.   Awarding the licenses by auction is a new endeavor for the FCC.

3.   Bidding for the second license is to start as soon as the first license is awarded.

4.   -- Colombia ended an era of state monopoly of its television industry by awarding two licenses to operate new private channels.

5.   All countries throughout the European Union, and eventually in Central Europe, are awarding new licenses.

6.   But the commission is planning to award the licenses to existing broadcasters at no cost.

7.   But when the city declined to award the license to the partnership, the Pritzker family says it lost money on the deal.

8.   By law, the legal wrangling over the Sao Paulo bidding must be resolved before the federal government can award licenses for other regions.

9.   Chinese officials have held up awarding the licenses for more than a year, contending Hong Kong is too small a market for six system operators.

10.   Colombia ended an era of state monopoly of its television industry by awarding two licenses to operate new private channels.