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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2002

A joint venture of Alaska Native corporations is asking the Federal Communications Corporation to refund $550 million the company paid in a wireless license auction.

Alaska Native Wireless, owned by Sealaska Corp., Doyon Ltd., Arctic Slope Regional Corp. and AT&T Wireless, purchased $2.9 billion for the licenses last year but an appeals court said they still belong to a bankrupt company called NextWave. A settlement that would have allowed the auction purchasers, including the Native venture, to keep the licenses was not acted upon by Congress.

Get the Story:
Wireless firm seeks FCC refund (The Anchorage Daily News 1/9)

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