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By YURI KAGEYA A
Te ecommunications
'OppO ety 0 ns
fo 1 ,women
The FCC has made available
several benefits for minorities,
women and small businesses
who participate in its upcoming
Spectrum Auctions of licenses
for narrowband Personal Com­
munications Servioe (PCS) and
Interactive Video Data Service
(IVDS).
The narrowband 'PCS in­
cludes opportunities for ad­
vanced voice paging, two-way
acknowledgment paging, data
messaging and both one-way
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simile; IVDS could include
banking, home shopping, educa­
tional' and pay-per-view pro­
gramming and other television
viewer interaction services.
FCC's preferences for minori­
ties, women and small busi­
nesses include:
• A government-sponsored
installment payment program,
which is available to 'qualified
small businesses on certain
IVDS licenses.
• Bidding Credits of 25 per­
cent, which are available to mi­
norities or women on certain
licenses. A bidding credit allows
the bidder to pay 25 percent less
than the amount of its successful
high bid. (If a bidder is both a
small business and minor­
ity/woman-owned bu iness, it
can obtain installment financ­
ing and use bidding credits with
certai n licenses.)
• Tax certificates are avail­
able to investors in minority and
women-owned licenses on cer­
tain licenses.
THE TWO separate auc­
tions, July 24 through 29, will
mark the first time the Commis­
sion will use auctions to license
spectrum. There will be ten �3-
tionwide licenses for P�S and
approximately 600 licenses for
IVDS.
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round au�\09 wil] be conc;!4. . f
for narrowband PCS licenses be­
ginning July 25 at the Omni
Shoreham Hotel in Washington,
D.C. Registration requirements
include a short form application
due Friday, July 1, and a mini­
mum up-front bid deposit of
$350,000 due by Monday, July
11. '
The IVDS is a new short-dis­
tance comm unication service.
The IVDS licenses will be
awarded using an open outcry
auction format on July 28 and 29
at-the Omni Shoreham Hotel in
Wa hington, D.C. The FCC
short form license application is
due by Monday, June 27, and at
least one cashier's check in the
amount of $2,500 is required on
auction day.
For information on either of
the auctions, call (202) 632-
FCCI or fax (202) 637-FCC2.
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Claudine K; Brown, Project Director, Smithsonian Institution's National African American
Museum Project. accept $78,000 donation from Julia Prohaska, Public Relations·
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of books, dolls and accessories from the new Addy Walker Collection and was part of the
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