POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO FORM S-8

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 23, 2011

Registration No. 333-144550

 

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

POST-EFFECTIVE

AMENDMENT NO. 1

TO

FORM S-8

 

 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

NextWave Wireless Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware    20-5361360
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)   

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

12264 El Camino Real, Suite 305

San Diego, California 92130

(619) 573-1570

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

 

 

IPWireless, Inc. Employee Stock Bonus Plan

(Full Title of the Plan(s))

 

 

Frank A. Cassou

Executive Vice President – Chief Legal Counsel

NextWaveWireless Inc.

12264 El Camino Real, Suite 305

San Diego, California 92130

(619) 573-1578

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

 

Copy to:

Marita A. Makinen, Esq.

Lowenstein Sandler PC

1251 Avenue of the Americas

New York, New York 10020

 

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not Applicable

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Post-Effective Amendment (this “Amendment”) relates to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (No. 333-144550) (the “Registration Statement”) filed by NextWave Wireless Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 13, 2007.

The Company no longer maintains the IPWireless, Inc. Employee Stock Bonus Plan (the “Plan”), and no awards under the Plan remain outstanding. Therefore, any offerings pursuant to the Plan have been terminated. In accordance with the undertaking contained in the Registration Statement pursuant to Item 512(a)(3) of Regulation S-K, the Company is filing this Amendment to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, all of the shares of common stock under the Plan which were registered under the Registration Statement and remain unsold as of the date of this Amendment.


SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Company has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of San Diego, State of California, on this 23rd day of August, 2011.

 

NEXTWAVE WIRELESS INC.
By:   /s/    Frank A. Cassou
  Name: Frank A. Cassou
  Title: Executive Vice President – Chief Legal Officer and Secretary