91.   But the three other wireless carriers are questioning whether NextWave, the winner in a special small business auction, ever met the qualifications for winning the licenses.

92.   Executives of the company, which sells to nearly all U.S. wireless carriers, said more than terrorism was to blame.

93.   Kane said some wireless carriers have already shown interest, and he predicted consumers will see multimedia services offered by the end of the year.

94.   --Largely kept in place its limits on how much spectrum can be licensed by a single wireless carrier within a particular geographic area.

95.   Meanwhile phone makers and wireless carriers, which normally love to show off their latest and greatest handsets well in advance, have paraded precious few in public.

96.   Regulators have cracked down repeatedly on major wireless carriers to be more specific in explaining their plans.

97.   Separately, this summer the FCC proposed spending more money to entice phone and wireless carriers to expand their services to underserved areas such as American Indian reservations.

98.   Some wireless carriers are facing serious strains to their network capacity, particularly in dense urban areas.

99.   Several major wireless carriers have expressed interest in the unit, the company said, but did not say how much it might fetch.

100.   Some wireless carriers want that auction, currently scheduled for March, to be delayed.