1.   Alltel holds a cellular license for Charlotte, giving the combined company a more attractive offering across the state.

2.   Analysts said Beijing might award the company a cellular license to make it more attractive to investors.

3.   At the same time, next month AirTouch plans to apply for a cellular license in other regions of India.

4.   Both Singapore companies said they are in talks with another foreign partner to form a venture to bid for a new cellular license.

5.   But in the cellular industry, competition has been limited because the FCC a decade ago created only two cellular licenses for each local market.

6.   Cash-strapped companies that won next-generation cellular licenses are getting a second chance to pay the U.S. government for their licenses under a new federal plan.

7.   In a separate, unrelated announcement, Vivendi said it would drop out of the auction for the next generation cellular license in Germany.

8.   New cellular licenses will be awarded next year in Singapore along with one or two fixed-line licenses.

9.   NextWave was the biggest bidder in a U.S. government auction of cellular licenses, the largest auction in history, and helped drive up prices with its aggressive bidding.

10.   Seeking to increase competition in wireless markets, the commission ruled that companies could not bid on PCS licenses covering areas where they already held cellular licenses.