Subject: [NEXTEL-1] Bill Gates stake in Nextel Partners rose to 7.6 pct

From: Marcel <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 20:12:00 -0500

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Bill Gates stake in Nextel Partners rose to 7.6 pct
Thursday February 13, 5:59 pm ET

WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Software billionaire Bill
Gates (News) has increased his stake in wireless telephone company
Nextel Partners Inc. (NasdaqNM:NXTP - News) to 7.6 percent from 5.45 percent,
according to a Securities and Exchange Commission (News - Websites) filing on
Thursday.

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The chairman and co-founder of Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - News) had
12.8 million Class A common Nextel shares as of Dec. 31, 2002,
the filing said, up from 9 million shares held as of Feb. 19,
2002.
The passive investment filing did not say when the extra
shares were purchased or at what prices.
Nextel Partners shares fell 1.03 percent, or 5 cents, to
close at $4.80 on Nasdaq. The affiliate of Nextel
Communications Inc. (NasdaqNM:NXTL - News) said on Thursday it generated
positive cash flow in 2002 as it added more subscribers than
expected, and expanded its network for less money than
planned.

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