Exhibit 10.69

 

EXECUTION COPY

 

$450,000,000

 

Nextel Partners, Inc.

 

81/8 % Senior Notes Due 2011

 

 

REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

 

 

June 23, 2003

 

CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON LLC

MORGAN STANLEY & CO. INCORPORATED

UBS SECURITIES LLC

LEGG MASON WOOD WALKER, INCORPORATED

THOMAS WEISEL PARTNERS LLC,

c/o Credit Suisse First Boston LLC,

Eleven Madison Avenue,

New York, N.Y. 10010-3629

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

Nextel Partners, Inc. a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), proposes to issue
and sell to Credit Suisse First Boston LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated,
UBS Securities LLC, Legg Mason Wood Walker, Incorporated and Thomas Weisel
Partners LLC (collectively, the “Initial Purchasers”), upon the terms set forth
in a purchase agreement dated as of June 16, 2003 (the “Purchase Agreement”),
$450,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its Senior Notes (the “Initial
Securities”).  The Initial Securities will be issued pursuant to an Indenture,
dated as of the date hereof (the “Indenture”), among the Company and The Bank of
New York, as trustee  (the “Trustee”).  As an inducement to the Initial
Purchasers to enter into the Purchase Agreement, the Company agrees with the
Initial Purchasers, for the benefit of the Initial Purchasers and the holders of
the Securities (as defined below) (collectively the “Holders”), as follows:

 

1.  Registered Exchange Offer.  Unless not permitted by applicable law (after
the Company has complied with the ultimate paragraph of this Section 1), the
Company shall prepare and, not later than 120 days (such 120th day being a
“Filing Deadline”) after the date on which the Initial Purchasers purchase the
Initial Securities pursuant to the Purchase Agreement (the “Closing Date”), file
with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) a registration
statement (the “Exchange Offer Registration Statement”) on an appropriate form
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), with
respect to a proposed offer (the “Registered Exchange Offer”) to the Holders of
Transfer Restricted Securities (as defined in Section 6 hereof), who are not
prohibited by any law or policy of the Commission from participating in the
Registered Exchange Offer, to issue and deliver to such Holders, in exchange for
the Initial Securities, a like aggregate principal amount of debt securities of
the Company issued under the Indenture, identical in all material respects to
the Initial Securities and registered under the Securities Act (the “Exchange
Securities”).  The Company shall use its best efforts to (i) cause such Exchange
Offer Registration Statement to become effective under the Securities Act within
180 days after the Closing Date (such 180th day being an “Effectiveness
Deadline”)  and (ii)  keep the Exchange Offer Registration Statement effective
for not less than 20 days (or longer, if required by applicable law)

 

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after the date notice of the Registered Exchange Offer is mailed to the Holders
(such period being called the “Exchange Offer Registration Period”).

 

If the Company commences the Registered Exchange Offer, the Company (i) will be
entitled to consummate the Registered Exchange Offer 30 days after such
commencement (provided that the Company has accepted all the Initial Securities
theretofore validly tendered in accordance with the terms of the Registered
Exchange Offer) and (ii) will be required to consummate the Registered Exchange
Offer no later than 30 days after the date on which the Exchange Offer
Registration Statement is declared effective (such 30th day being the
“Consummation Deadline”).

 

Following the declaration of the effectiveness of the Exchange Offer
Registration Statement, the Company shall promptly commence the Registered
Exchange Offer, it being the objective of such Registered Exchange Offer to
enable each Holder of Transfer Restricted Securities electing to exchange the
Initial Securities for Exchange Securities (assuming that such Holder is not an
affiliate of the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act, acquires the
Exchange Securities in the ordinary course of such Holder’s business and has no
arrangements with any person to participate in the distribution of the Exchange
Securities and is not prohibited by any law or policy of the Commission from
participating in the Registered Exchange Offer) to trade such Exchange
Securities from and after their receipt without any limitations or restrictions
under the Securities Act and without material restrictions under the securities
laws of the several states of the United States.

 

The Company acknowledges that, pursuant to current interpretations by the
Commission’s staff of Section 5 of the Securities Act, in the absence of an
applicable exemption therefrom, (i) each Holder which is a broker-dealer
electing to exchange Initial Securities, acquired for its own account as a
result of market making activities or other trading activities, for Exchange
Securities (an “Exchanging Dealer”), is required to deliver a prospectus
containing the information set forth in (a) Annex A hereto on the cover, (b)
Annex B hereto in the “Exchange Offer Procedures” section and the “Purpose of
the Exchange Offer” section, and (c) Annex C hereto in the “Plan of
Distribution” section of such prospectus in connection with a sale of any such
Exchange Securities received by such Exchanging Dealer pursuant to the
Registered Exchange Offer and (ii) an Initial Purchaser that elects to sell
Securities (as defined below) acquired in exchange for Initial Securities
constituting any portion of an unsold allotment, is required to deliver a
prospectus containing the information required by Items 507 or 508 of Regulation
S-K under the Securities Act, as applicable, in connection with such sale.

 

The Company shall use its best efforts to keep the Exchange Offer Registration
Statement effective and to amend and supplement the prospectus contained
therein, in order to permit such prospectus to be lawfully delivered by all
persons subject to the prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act
for such period of time as such persons must comply with such requirements in
order to resell the Exchange Securities; provided, however, that (i) in the case
where such prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto must be delivered
by an Exchanging Dealer or an Initial Purchaser, such period shall be the lesser
of 180 days and the date on which all Exchanging Dealers and the Initial
Purchasers have sold all Exchange Securities held by them (unless such period is
extended pursuant to Section 3(j) below) and (ii) the Company shall make such
prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto available to any
broker-dealer for use in connection with any resale of any Exchange Securities
for a period of not less than 180 days after the consummation of the Registered
Exchange Offer.

 

If, upon consummation of the Registered Exchange Offer, any Initial Purchaser
holds Initial Securities acquired by it as part of its initial distribution, the
Company, simultaneously with the delivery of the Exchange Securities pursuant to
the Registered Exchange Offer, shall issue and deliver to such Initial Purchaser
upon the written request of such Initial Purchaser, in exchange (the “Private
Exchange”) for the Initial Securities held by such Initial Purchaser, a like
principal amount of debt securities of the Company issued under the Indenture
and identical in all material respects to the Initial Securities (the “Private

 

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Exchange Securities”).  The Initial Securities, the Exchange Securities and the
Private Exchange Securities are herein collectively called the “Securities”.

 

In connection with the Registered Exchange Offer, the Company shall:

 

(a) mail to each Holder a copy of the prospectus forming part of the Exchange
Offer Registration Statement, together with an appropriate letter of transmittal
and related documents;

 

(b) keep the Registered Exchange Offer open for not less than 20 days (or
longer, if required by applicable law) after the date notice thereof is mailed
to the Holders;

 

(c) utilize the services of a depositary for the Registered Exchange Offer with
an address in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, which may be the
Trustee or an affiliate of the Trustee;

 

(d) permit Holders to withdraw tendered Securities at any time prior to the
close of business, New York time, on the last business day on which the
Registered Exchange Offer shall remain open; and

 

(e) otherwise comply with all applicable laws.

 

As soon as practicable after the close of the Registered Exchange Offer or the
Private Exchange, as the case may be, the Company shall:

 

(x) accept for exchange all the Securities validly tendered and not withdrawn
pursuant to the Registered Exchange Offer and the Private Exchange;

 

(y) deliver to the Trustee for cancellation all the Initial Securities so
accepted for exchange; and

 

(z) cause the Trustee to authenticate and deliver promptly to each Holder of the
Initial Securities, Exchange Securities or Private Exchange Securities, as the
case may be, equal in principal amount to the Initial Securities of such Holder
so accepted for exchange.

 

The Indenture will provide that the Exchange Securities will not be subject to
the transfer restrictions set forth in the Indenture and that all the Securities
will vote and consent together on all matters as one class and that none of the
Securities will have the right to vote or consent as a class separate from one
another on any matter.

 

Interest on each Exchange Security and Private Exchange Security issued pursuant
to the Registered Exchange Offer and in the Private Exchange will accrue from
the last interest payment date on which interest was paid on the Initial
Securities surrendered in exchange therefor or, if no interest has been paid on
the Initial Securities, from the date of original issue of the Initial
Securities.

 

Each Holder participating in the Registered Exchange Offer shall be required to
represent to the Company that at the time of the consummation of the Registered
Exchange Offer (i) any Exchange Securities received by such Holder will be
acquired in the ordinary course of business, (ii) such Holder will have no
arrangements or understanding with any person to participate in the distribution
of the Securities or the Exchange Securities within the meaning of the
Securities Act, (iii) such Holder is not an “affiliate,” as defined in Rule 405
of the Securities Act, of the Company or if it is an affiliate, such Holder will
comply with the registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the
Securities Act to the extent applicable, (iv) if such Holder is not a
broker-dealer, that it is not engaged in, and does not intend to engage in, the
distribution of the Exchange Securities and (v) if such Holder is a
broker-dealer, that it will receive

 

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Exchange Securities for its own account in exchange for Initial Securities that
were acquired as a result of market-making activities or other trading
activities and that it will be required to acknowledge that it will deliver a
prospectus in connection with any resale of such Exchange Securities.

 

Notwithstanding any other provisions hereof, the Company will ensure that
(i) any Exchange Offer Registration Statement and any amendment thereto and any
prospectus forming part thereof and any supplement thereto complies in all
material respects with the Securities Act and the rules and regulations
thereunder, (ii) any Exchange Offer Registration Statement and any amendment
thereto does not, when it becomes effective, contain an untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or
necessary to make the statements therein not misleading and (iii) any prospectus
forming part of any Exchange Offer Registration Statement, and any supplement to
such prospectus, does not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit
to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to
make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they
were made, not misleading.

 

If following the date hereof there has been announced a change in Commission
policy with respect to exchange offers that in the reasonable opinion of counsel
to the Company raises a substantial question as to whether the Registered
Exchange Offer is permitted by applicable federal law, the Company will seek a
no-action letter or other favorable decision from the Commission allowing the
Company to consummate the Registered Exchange Offer.  The Company will pursue
the issuance of such a decision to the Commission staff level.  In connection
with the foregoing, the Company will take all such other actions as may be
requested by the Commission or otherwise required in connection with the
issuance of such decision, including without limitation (i) participating in
telephonic conferences with the Commission, (ii) delivering to the Commission
staff an analysis prepared by counsel to the Company setting forth the legal
bases, if any, upon which such counsel has concluded that the Registered
Exchange Offer should be permitted and (iii) diligently pursuing a resolution
(which need not be favorable) by the Commission staff.

 

2.  Shelf Registration.  If, (i) because of any change in law or in applicable
interpretations thereof by the staff of the Commission, the Company is not
permitted to effect a Registered Exchange Offer, as contemplated by Section 1
hereof, (ii) the Registered Exchange Offer is not consummated by the 180th day
after the Closing Date, (iii) any Initial Purchaser so requests with respect to
the Initial Securities (or the Private Exchange Securities) not eligible to be
exchanged for Exchange Securities in the Registered Exchange Offer and held by
it following consummation of the Registered Exchange Offer or (iv) any Holder
(other than an Exchanging Dealer) is not eligible to participate in the
Registered Exchange Offer or, in the case of any Holder (other than an
Exchanging Dealer) that participates in the Registered Exchange Offer, such
Holder does not receive freely tradeable Exchange Securities on the date of the
exchange and any such Holder so requests, the Company shall take the following
actions (the date on which any of the conditions described in the foregoing
clauses (i) through (iv) occur, including in the case of clauses (iii) or (iv)
the receipt of the required notice, being a “Trigger Date”):

 

(a)  The Company shall promptly  (but in no event more than 60 days after the
Trigger Date (such 60th day being a “Filing Deadline”)) file with the Commission
and thereafter use its best efforts to cause to be declared effective no later
than 90 days after the Trigger Date (such 90th day being an “Effectiveness
Deadline”) a registration statement (the “Shelf Registration Statement” and,
together with the Exchange Offer Registration Statement, a “Registration
Statement”) on an appropriate form under the Securities Act relating to the
offer and sale of the Transfer Restricted Securities by the Holders thereof from
time to time in accordance with the methods of distribution set forth in the
Shelf Registration Statement and Rule 415 under the Securities Act (hereinafter,
the “Shelf Registration”); provided, however, that no Holder (other than an
Initial Purchaser) shall be entitled to have the Securities held by it covered
by such Shelf Registration Statement unless such Holder agrees in writing to be
bound by all the provisions of this Agreement applicable to such Holder.

 

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(b)  The Company shall use its best efforts to keep the Shelf Registration
Statement continuously effective in order to permit the prospectus included
therein to be lawfully delivered by the Holders of the relevant Securities, for
a period of two years (or for such longer period if extended pursuant to
Section 3(j) below) from the date of its effectiveness or such shorter period
that will terminate when all the Securities covered by the Shelf Registration
Statement (i) have been sold pursuant thereto or (ii) are no longer restricted
securities (as defined in Rule 144 under the Securities Act, or any successor
rule thereof).  The Company shall be deemed not to have used its best efforts to
keep the Shelf Registration Statement effective during the requisite period if
it voluntarily takes any action that would result in Holders of Securities
covered thereby not being able to offer and sell such Securities during that
period, unless such action is required by applicable law.

 

(c)  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement to the contrary, the
Company shall cause the Shelf Registration Statement and the related prospectus
and any amendment or supplement thereto, as of the effective date of the Shelf
Registration Statement, amendment or supplement, (i) to comply in all material
respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act and the rules
and regulations of the Commission and (ii) not to contain any untrue statement
of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated
therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

 

3.  Registration Procedures.  In connection with any Shelf Registration
contemplated by Section 2 hereof and, to the extent applicable, any Registered
Exchange Offer contemplated by Section 1 hereof, the following provisions shall
apply:

 

(a)  The Company shall (i) furnish to each Initial Purchaser, prior to the
filing thereof with the Commission, a copy of the Registration Statement and
each amendment thereof and each supplement, if any, to the prospectus included
therein and, in the event that an Initial Purchaser (with respect to any portion
of an unsold allotment from the original offering) is participating in the
Registered Exchange Offer or the Shelf Registration Statement, the Company shall
use its best efforts to reflect in each such document, when so filed with the
Commission, such comments as such Initial Purchaser reasonably may propose;
(ii) include the information set forth in Annex A hereto on the cover, in Annex
B hereto in the “Exchange Offer Procedures” section and the “Purpose of the
Exchange Offer” section and in Annex C hereto in the “Plan of Distribution”
section of the prospectus forming a part of the Exchange Offer Registration
Statement and include the information set forth in Annex D hereto in the Letter
of Transmittal delivered pursuant to the Registered Exchange Offer; (iii) if
requested by an Initial Purchaser, include the information required by Items 507
or 508 of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act, as applicable, in the
prospectus forming a part of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement;
(iv) include within the prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration
Statement a section entitled “Plan of Distribution,” reasonably acceptable to
the Initial Purchasers, which shall contain a summary statement of the positions
taken or policies made by the staff of the Commission with respect to the
potential “underwriter” status of any broker-dealer that is the beneficial owner
(as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended
(the “Exchange Act”)) of Exchange Securities received by such broker-dealer in
the Registered Exchange Offer (a “Participating Broker-Dealer”), whether such
positions or policies have been publicly disseminated by the staff of the
Commission or such positions or policies, in the reasonable judgment of the
Initial Purchasers based upon advice of counsel (which may be in-house counsel),
represent the prevailing views of the staff of the Commission; and (v) in the
case of a Shelf Registration Statement, include the names of the Holders who
propose to sell Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement as
selling securityholders.

 

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(b)  The Company shall give written notice to the Initial Purchasers, the
Holders of the Securities and any Participating Broker-Dealer from whom the
Company has received prior written notice that it will be a Participating
Broker-Dealer in the Registered Exchange Offer (which notice pursuant to clauses
(ii)-(v) hereof shall be accompanied by an instruction to suspend the use of the
prospectus until the requisite changes have been made):

 

(i) when the Registration Statement or any amendment thereto has been filed with
the Commission and when the Registration Statement or any post-effective
amendment thereto has become effective;

 

(ii) of any request by the Commission for amendments or supplements to the
Registration Statement or the prospectus included therein or for additional
information;

 

(iii) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the
effectiveness of the Registration Statement or the initiation of any proceedings
for that purpose;

 

(iv) of the receipt by the Company or its legal counsel of any notification with
respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Securities for sale in any
jurisdiction or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such
purpose; and

 

(v) of the happening of any event that requires the Company to make changes in
the Registration Statement or the prospectus in order that the Registration
Statement or the prospectus do not contain an untrue statement of a material
fact nor omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or
necessary to make the statements therein (in the case of the prospectus, in
light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading.

 

(c)  The Company shall make every reasonable effort to obtain the withdrawal at
the earliest possible time, of any order suspending the effectiveness of the
Registration Statement.

 

(d)  The Company shall furnish to each Holder of Securities included within the
coverage of the Shelf Registration, without charge, at least one copy of the
Shelf Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto, including
financial statements and schedules, and, if the Holder so requests in writing,
all exhibits thereto (including those, if any, incorporated by reference).

 

(e)  The Company shall deliver to each Exchanging Dealer and each Initial
Purchaser, and to any other Holder who so requests, without charge, at least one
copy of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement and any post-effective
amendment thereto, including financial statements and schedules, and, if any
Initial Purchaser or any such Holder requests, all exhibits thereto (including
those incorporated by reference).

 

(f)  The Company shall, during the Shelf Registration Period, deliver to each
Holder of Securities included within the coverage of the Shelf Registration,
without charge, as many copies of the prospectus (including each preliminary
prospectus) included in the Shelf Registration Statement and any amendment or
supplement thereto as such person may reasonably request.  The Company consents,
subject to the provisions of this Agreement, to the use of the prospectus or any
amendment or supplement thereto by each of the selling Holders of the Securities
in connection with the offering and sale of the Securities covered by the
prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, included in the Shelf
Registration Statement.

 

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(g)  The Company shall deliver to each Initial Purchaser, any Exchanging Dealer,
any Participating Broker-Dealer and such other persons required to deliver a
prospectus following the Registered Exchange Offer, without charge, as many
copies of the final prospectus included in the Exchange Offer Registration
Statement and any amendment or supplement thereto as such persons may reasonably
request.  The Company consents, subject to the provisions of this Agreement, to
the use of the prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto by any Initial
Purchaser, if necessary, any Participating Broker-Dealer and such other persons
required to deliver a prospectus following the Registered Exchange Offer in
connection with the offering and sale of the Exchange Securities covered by the
prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, included in such Exchange
Offer Registration Statement.

 

(h)  Prior to any public offering of the Securities pursuant to any Registration
Statement the Company shall register or qualify or cooperate with the Holders of
the Securities included therein and their respective counsel in connection with
the registration or qualification of the Securities for offer and sale under the
securities or “blue sky” laws of such states of the United States as any Holder
of the Securities reasonably requests in writing and do any and all other acts
or things necessary or advisable to enable the offer and sale in such
jurisdictions of the Securities covered by such Registration Statement;
provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to (i) qualify
generally to do business in any jurisdiction where it is not then so qualified
or (ii) take any action which would subject it to general service of process or
to taxation in any jurisdiction where it is not then so subject.

 

(i)  The Company shall cooperate with the Holders of the Securities to
facilitate the timely preparation and delivery of certificates representing the
Securities to be sold pursuant to any Registration Statement free of any
restrictive legends and in such denominations and registered in such names as
the Holders may request a reasonable period of time prior to sales of the
Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement.

 

(j)  Upon the occurrence of any event contemplated by paragraphs (ii) through
(v) of Section 3(b) above during the period for which the Company is required to
maintain an effective Registration Statement, the Company shall promptly prepare
and file a post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement or a
supplement to the related prospectus and any other required document so that, as
thereafter delivered to Holders of the Securities or purchasers of Securities,
the prospectus will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit
to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make
the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were
made, not misleading.  If the Company notifies the Initial Purchasers, the
Holders of the Securities and any known Participating Broker-Dealer in
accordance with paragraphs (ii) through (v) of Section 3(b) above to suspend the
use of the prospectus until the requisite changes to the prospectus have been
made, then the Initial Purchasers, the Holders of the Securities and any such
Participating Broker-Dealers shall suspend use of such prospectus, and the
period of effectiveness of the Shelf Registration Statement provided for in
Section 2(b) above and the Exchange Offer Registration Statement provided for in
Section 1 above shall each be extended by the number of days from and including
the date of the giving of such notice to and including the date when the Initial
Purchasers, the Holders of the Securities and any known Participating
Broker-Dealer shall have received such amended or supplemented prospectus
pursuant to this Section 3(j).

 

(k)  Not later than the effective date of the applicable Registration Statement,
the Company will provide a CUSIP number for the Initial Securities, the Exchange
Securities or the Private Exchange Securities, as the case may be, and provide
the applicable trustee with printed certificates for the Initial Securities, the
Exchange Securities or the Private Exchange Securities, as the case may be, in a
form eligible for deposit with The Depository Trust Company.

 

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(l)  The Company will comply with all rules and regulations of the Commission to
the extent and so long as they are applicable to the Registered Exchange Offer
or the Shelf Registration and will make generally available to its security
holders (or otherwise provide in accordance with Section 11(a) of the Securities
Act) an earnings statement satisfying the provisions of Section 11(a) of the
Securities Act, as soon as practicable after the end of a 12-month period
beginning with the first month of the Company’s first fiscal quarter commencing
after the effective date of the Registration Statement, which statement shall
cover such 12-month period.

 

(m)  The Company shall cause the Indenture to be qualified under the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, in a timely manner and containing such
changes, if any, as shall be necessary for such qualification.  In the event
that such qualification would require the appointment of a new trustee under the
Indenture, the Company shall appoint a new trustee thereunder pursuant to the
applicable provisions of the Indenture.

 

(n)  The Company may require each Holder of Securities to be sold pursuant to
the Shelf Registration Statement to furnish to the Company such information
regarding the Holder and the distribution of the Securities as the Company may
from time to time reasonably require for inclusion in the Shelf Registration
Statement, and the Company may exclude from such registration the Securities of
any Holder that unreasonably fails to furnish such information within a
reasonable time after receiving such request.

 

(o)  The Company shall enter into such customary agreements (including, if
requested, an underwriting agreement in customary form) and take all such other
action, if any, as any Holder of the Securities shall reasonably request in
order to facilitate the disposition of the Securities pursuant to any Shelf
Registration.

 

(p)  In the case of any Shelf Registration, the Company shall (i) make
reasonably available for inspection by the Holders of the Securities, any
underwriter participating in any disposition pursuant to the Shelf Registration
Statement and any attorney, accountant or other agent retained by the Holders of
the Securities or any such underwriter all relevant financial and other records,
pertinent corporate documents and properties of the Company and (ii) cause the
Company’s officers, directors, employees, accountants and auditors to supply all
relevant information reasonably requested by the Holders of the Securities or
any such underwriter, attorney, accountant or agent in connection with the Shelf
Registration Statement, in each case, as shall be reasonably necessary to enable
such persons, to conduct a reasonable investigation within the meaning of
Section 11 of the Securities Act; provided, however, that the foregoing
inspection and information gathering shall be coordinated on behalf of the
Initial Purchasers by you and on behalf of the other parties, by one counsel
designated by and on behalf of such other parties as described in Section 4
hereof.

 

(q)  In the case of any Shelf Registration, the Company, if requested by any
Holder of Securities covered thereby, shall cause (i) its counsel to deliver an
opinion and updates thereof relating to the Securities in customary form
addressed to such Holders and the managing underwriters, if any, thereof and
dated, in the case of the initial opinion, the effective date of such Shelf
Registration Statement (it being agreed that the matters to be covered by such
opinion shall include, without limitation, the due incorporation and good
standing of the Company and its subsidiaries; the qualification of the Company
and its subsidiaries to transact business as foreign corporations; the due
authorization, execution and delivery of the relevant agreement of the type
referred to in Section 3(o) hereof; the due authorization, execution,
authentication and issuance, and the validity and enforceability, of the
applicable Securities; the absence of material legal or governmental proceedings
involving the Company and its subsidiaries; the absence of governmental
approvals required to be obtained in connection with the Shelf Registration

 

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Statement, the offering and sale of the applicable Securities, or any agreement
of the type referred to in Section 3(o) hereof; the compliance as to form of
such Shelf Registration Statement and any documents incorporated by reference
therein and of the Indenture with the requirements of the Securities Act and the
Trust Indenture Act, respectively; and, as of the date of the opinion and as of
the effective date of the Shelf Registration Statement or most recent
post-effective amendment thereto, as the case may be, the absence from such
Shelf Registration Statement and the prospectus included therein, as then
amended or supplemented, and from any documents incorporated by reference
therein of an untrue statement of a material fact or the omission to state
therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the
statements therein not misleading (in the case of any such documents, in the
light of the circumstances existing at the time that such documents were filed
with the Commission under the Exchange Act)); (ii) its officers to execute and
deliver all customary documents and certificates and updates thereof requested
by any underwriters of the applicable Securities and (iii) its independent
public accountants to provide to the selling Holders of the applicable
Securities and any underwriter therefor a comfort letter in customary form and
covering matters of the type customarily covered in comfort letters in
connection with primary underwritten offerings, subject to receipt of
appropriate documentation as contemplated, and only if permitted, by Statement
of Auditing Standards No. 72.

 

(r)  In the case of the Registered Exchange Offer, if requested by any Initial
Purchaser or any known Participating Broker-Dealer, the Company shall cause
(i) its counsel to deliver to such Initial Purchaser or such Participating
Broker-Dealer a signed opinion in the form set forth in Section 6(e) of the
Purchase Agreement with such changes as are customary in connection with the
preparation of a Registration Statement and (ii) its independent public
accountants to deliver to such Initial Purchaser or such Participating
Broker-Dealer a comfort letter, in customary form, meeting the requirements as
to the substance thereof as set forth in Section 6(i) of the Purchase Agreement,
with appropriate date changes.

 

(s)   If a Registered Exchange Offer or a Private Exchange is to be consummated,
upon delivery of the Initial Securities by Holders to the Company (or to such
other Person as directed by the Company) in exchange for the Exchange Securities
or the Private Exchange Securities, as the case may be, the Company shall mark,
or caused to be marked, on the Initial Securities so exchanged that such Initial
Securities are being canceled in exchange for the Exchange Securities or the
Private Exchange Securities, as the case may be; in no event shall the Initial
Securities be marked as paid or otherwise satisfied.

 

(t)  The Company will use its best efforts to (a) if the Initial Securities have
been rated prior to the initial sale of such Initial Securities, confirm such
ratings will apply to the Securities covered by a Registration Statement, or
(b) if the Initial Securities were not previously rated, cause the Securities
covered by a Registration Statement to be rated with the appropriate rating
agencies, if so requested by Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount
of Securities covered by such Registration Statement, or by the managing
underwriters, if any.

 

(u)  In the event that any broker-dealer registered under the Exchange Act shall
underwrite any Securities or participate as a member of an underwriting
syndicate or selling group or “assist in the distribution” (within the meaning
of the Conduct Rules (the “Rules”) of the National Association of Securities
Dealers, Inc. (“NASD”)) thereof, whether as a Holder of such Securities or as an
underwriter, a placement or sales agent or a broker or dealer in respect
thereof, or otherwise, the Company will assist such broker-dealer in complying
with the requirements of such Rules, including, without limitation, by (i) if
such Rules, including Rule 2720, shall so require, engaging a “qualified
independent underwriter” (as defined in Rule 2720) to participate in the
preparation of the Registration Statement relating to such Securities, to
exercise usual standards of due diligence in respect thereto and, if any portion
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such Registration Statement is an underwritten offering or is made through a
placement or sales agent, to recommend the yield of such Securities,
(ii) indemnifying any such qualified independent underwriter to the extent of
the indemnification of underwriters provided in Section 5 hereof and
(iii) providing such information to such broker-dealer as may be required in
order for such broker-dealer to comply with the requirements of the Rules.

 

(v)  The Company shall use its best efforts to take all other steps necessary to
effect the registration of the Securities covered by a Registration Statement
contemplated hereby.

 

4.  Registration Expenses.  (a) All expenses incident to the Company’s
performance of and compliance with this Agreement will be borne by the Company,
regardless of whether a Registration Statement is ever filed or becomes
effective, including without limitation;

 

(i)  all registration and filing fees and expenses;

 

(ii) all fees and expenses of compliance with federal securities and state “blue
sky” or securities laws;

 

(iii) all expenses of printing (including printing certificates for the
Securities to be issued in the Registered Exchange Offer and the Private
Exchange and printing of Prospectuses), messenger and delivery services and
telephone;

 

(iv) all fees and disbursements of counsel for the Company;

 

(v) all application and filing fees in connection with listing the Exchange
Securities on a national securities exchange or automated quotation system
pursuant to the requirements hereof; and

 

(vi) all fees and disbursements of independent certified public accountants of
the Company (including the expenses of any special audit and comfort letters
required by or incident to such performance).

 

The Company will bear its internal expenses (including, without limitation, all
salaries and expenses of its officers and employees performing legal or
accounting duties), the expenses of any annual audit and the fees and expenses
of any person, including special experts, retained by the Company.

 

(b)  In connection with any Registration Statement required by this Agreement,
the Company will reimburse the Initial Purchasers and the Holders of Transfer
Restricted Securities who are tendering Initial Securities in the Registered
Exchange Offer and/or selling or reselling Securities pursuant to the “Plan of
Distribution” contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement or the
Shelf Registration Statement, as applicable, for the reasonable fees and
disbursements of not more than one counsel, who shall be chosen by the Holders
of a majority in principal amount of the Transfer Restricted Securities for
whose benefit such Registration Statement is being prepared.

 

5.  Indemnification.  (a)  The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless
each Holder of the Securities, any Participating Broker-Dealer and each person,
if any, who controls such Holder or such Participating Broker-Dealer within the
meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act (each Holder, any
Participating Broker-Dealer and such controlling persons are referred to
collectively as the “Indemnified Parties”) from and against any losses, claims,
damages or liabilities, joint or several, or any actions in respect thereof
(including, but not limited to, any losses, claims, damages, liabilities or
actions relating to purchases and sales of the Securities) to which each
Indemnified Party may become subject under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act
or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or actions
arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement
of a material fact

 

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contained in a Registration Statement or prospectus or in any amendment or
supplement thereto or in any preliminary prospectus relating to a Shelf
Registration, or arise out of, or are based upon, the omission or alleged
omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or
necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and shall reimburse, as
incurred, the Indemnified Parties for any legal or other expenses reasonably
incurred by them in connection with investigating or defending any such loss,
claim, damage, liability or action in respect thereof; provided, however, that
(i) the Company shall not be liable in any such case to the extent that such
loss, claim, damage or liability arises out of or is based upon any untrue
statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made in a
Registration Statement or prospectus or in any amendment or supplement thereto
or in any preliminary prospectus relating to a Shelf Registration in reliance
upon and in conformity with written information pertaining to such Holder and
furnished to the Company by or on behalf of such Holder specifically for
inclusion therein and (ii) with respect to any untrue statement or omission or
alleged untrue statement or omission made in any preliminary prospectus relating
to a Shelf Registration Statement, the indemnity agreement contained in this
subsection (a) shall not inure to the benefit of any Holder or Participating
Broker-Dealer from whom the person asserting any such losses, claims, damages or
liabilities purchased the Securities concerned, to the extent that a prospectus
relating to such Securities was required to be delivered by such Holder or
Participating Broker-Dealer under the Securities Act in connection with such
purchase and any such loss, claim, damage or liability of such Holder or
Participating Broker-Dealer results from the fact that there was not sent or
given to such person, at or prior to the written confirmation of the sale of
such Securities to such person, a copy of the final prospectus if the Company
had previously furnished copies thereof to such Holder or Participating
Broker-Dealer; provided further, however, that this indemnity agreement will be
in addition to any liability which the Company may otherwise have to such
Indemnified Party.  The Company shall also indemnify underwriters, their
officers and directors and each person who controls such underwriters within the
meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act to the same extent as provided
above with respect to the indemnification of the Holders of the Securities if
requested by such Holders.

 

(b)  Each Holder of the Securities, severally and not jointly, will indemnify
and hold harmless the Company and each person, if any, who controls the Company
within the meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act from and against
any losses, claims, damages or liabilities or any actions in respect thereof, to
which the Company or any such controlling person may become subject under the
Securities Act, the Exchange Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims,
damages, liabilities or actions arise out of or are based upon any untrue
statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in a
Registration Statement or prospectus or in any amendment or supplement thereto
or in any preliminary prospectus relating to a Shelf Registration, or arise out
of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a
material fact necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, but in
each case only to the extent that the untrue statement or omission or alleged
untrue statement or omission was made in reliance upon and in conformity with
written information pertaining to such Holder and furnished to the Company by or
on behalf of such Holder specifically for inclusion therein; and, subject to the
limitation set forth immediately preceding this clause, shall reimburse, as
incurred, the Company for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by the
Company or any such controlling person in connection with investigating or
defending any loss, claim, damage, liability or action in respect thereof.  This
indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability which such Holder may
otherwise have to the Company or any of its controlling persons.

 

(c)  Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section 5 of
notice of the commencement of any action or proceeding (including a governmental
investigation), such indemnified party will, if a claim in respect thereof is to
be made against the indemnifying party under this Section 5, notify the
indemnifying party of the commencement thereof; but the failure to notify the
indemnifying party shall not relieve the indemnifying party from any liability
that it may have under subsection (a) or (b) above except to the extent that it
has been materially prejudiced (through the forfeiture of substantive rights or
defenses) by such failure; and provided further that the failure to notify the
indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability that it may have to
an indemnified party otherwise than under subsection  (a) or (b) above.    In
case any such action is brought against any indemnified party, and it notifies
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indemnifying party of the commencement thereof, the indemnifying party will be
entitled to participate therein and, to the extent that it may wish, jointly
with any other indemnifying party similarly notified, to assume the defense
thereof, with counsel reasonably satisfactory to such indemnified party (who
shall not, except with the consent of the indemnified party, be counsel to the
indemnifying party), and after notice from the indemnifying party to such
indemnified party of its election so to assume the defense thereof the
indemnifying party will not be liable to such indemnified party under this
Section 5 for any legal or other expenses, other than reasonable costs of
investigation, subsequently incurred by such indemnified party in connection
with the defense thereof.  No indemnifying party shall, without the prior
written consent of the indemnified party, effect any settlement of any pending
or threatened action in respect of which any indemnified party is or could have
been a party and indemnity could have been sought hereunder by such indemnified
party unless such settlement (i) includes an unconditional release of such
indemnified party from all liability on any claims that are the subject matter
of such action, and (ii) does not include a statement as to or an admission of
fault, culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of any indemnified party.

 

(d)  If the indemnification provided for in this Section 5 is unavailable or
insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under subsections (a) or (b)
above, then each indemnifying party shall contribute to the amount paid or
payable by such indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages or
liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) referred to in subsection (a) or (b)
above (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits
received by the indemnifying party or parties on the one hand and the
indemnified party on the other from the exchange of the Securities, pursuant to
the Registered Exchange Offer, or (ii) if the allocation provided by the
foregoing clause (i) is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as
is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause
(i) above but also the relative fault of the indemnifying party or parties on
the one hand and the indemnified party on the other in connection with the
statements or omissions that resulted in such losses, claims, damages or
liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) as well as any other relevant
equitable considerations.  The relative fault of the parties shall be determined
by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue
statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a
material fact relates to information supplied by the Company on the one hand or
such Holder or such other indemnified party, as the case may be, on the other,
and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and
opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission.  The amount paid
by an indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages or
liabilities referred to in the first sentence of this subsection (d) shall be
deemed to include any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such
indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending any action or
claim which is the subject of this subsection (d).  Notwithstanding any other
provision of this Section 5(d), the Holders of the Securities shall not be
required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the net
proceeds received by such Holders from the sale of the Securities pursuant to a
Registration Statement exceeds the amount of damages which such Holders have
otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue
statement or omission or alleged omission.  No person guilty of fraudulent
misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act)
shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such
fraudulent misrepresentation.  For purposes of this paragraph (d), each person,
if any, who controls such indemnified party within the meaning of the Securities
Act or the Exchange Act shall have the same rights to contribution as such
indemnified party and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the
meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act shall have the same rights to
contribution as the Company.

 

(e)  The agreements contained in this Section 5 shall survive the sale of the
Securities pursuant to a Registration Statement and shall remain in full force
and effect, regardless of any termination or cancellation of this Agreement or
any investigation made by or on behalf of any indemnified party.

 

6.  Additional Interest Under Certain Circumstances.  (a)  Additional Interest
(the “Additional Interest”) with respect to the Securities shall be assessed as
follows if any of the following events occur (each such event in clauses (i)
through (iv) below being herein called a “Registration Default”):

 

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(i)                                     any Registration Statement required by
this Agreement is not filed with the Commission on or prior to the applicable
Filing Deadline;

 

(ii)                                  any Registration Statement required by
this Agreement is  not declared effective by the Commission on or prior to the
applicable Effectiveness Deadline;

 

(iii)                               the Registered Exchange Offer has not been
consummated on or prior to the Consummation Deadline; or

 

(iv)                              any Registration Statement required by this
Agreement has been declared effective by the Commission but (A) such
Registration Statement thereafter ceases to be effective or (B) such
Registration Statement or the related prospectus ceases to be usable in
connection with resales of Transfer Restricted Securities during the periods
specified herein because either (1) any event occurs as a result of which the
related prospectus forming part of such Registration Statement would include any
untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary
to make the statements therein in the light of the circumstances under which
they were made not misleading, or (2) it shall be necessary to amend such
Registration Statement or supplement the related prospectus, to comply with the
Securities Act or the Exchange Act or the respective rules thereunder.

 

Each of the foregoing will constitute a Registration Default whatever the reason
for any such event and whether it is voluntary or involuntary or is beyond the
control of the Company or pursuant to operation of law or as a result of any
action or inaction by the Commission.

 

Additional Interest shall accrue on the Securities over and above the interest
set forth in the title of the Securities from and including the date on which
any such Registration Default shall occur to but excluding the date on which all
such Registration Defaults have been cured, in an amount equal to $.05 per week
per $1,000 in principal amount of Transfer Restricted Securities for each week
or portion thereof that the Registration Default continues for the first 90-day
period immediately following the occurrence of such Registration Default.  The
amount of Additional Interest shall increase by an additional $.05 per week per
$1,000 in principal amount of Transfer Restricted Securities with respect to
each subsequent 90-day period until all Registration Defaults have been cured,
up to a maximum amount of additional interest of $.50 per week per $1,000 in
principal amount of Transfer Restricted Securities; provided that the Company
shall in no event be required to pay Additional Interest for more that one
Registration Default at any given time.

 

(b)  A Registration Default referred to in Section 6(a)(iv) hereof shall be
deemed not to have occurred and be continuing in relation to a Shelf
Registration Statement or the related prospectus if (i) such Registration
Default has occurred solely as a result of (x) the filing of a post-effective
amendment to such Shelf Registration Statement to incorporate annual audited
financial information with respect to the Company where such post-effective
amendment is not yet effective and needs to be declared effective to permit
Holders to use the related prospectus or (y) other material events, with respect
to the Company that would need to be described in such Shelf Registration
Statement or the related prospectus and (ii) in the case of clause (y), the
Company is proceeding promptly and in good faith to amend or supplement such
Shelf Registration Statement and related prospectus to describe such events;
provided, however, that in any case if such Registration Default occurs for a
continuous period in excess of 30 days, Additional Interest shall be payable in
accordance with the above paragraph from the day such Registration Default
occurs until such Registration Default is cured.

 

(c)  “Transfer Restricted Securities” means each Security until (i) the date on
which such Security has been exchanged by a person other than a broker-dealer
for a freely transferable Exchange Security in the Registered Exchange Offer,
(ii) following the exchange by a broker-dealer in the Registered Exchange Offer
of an Initial Security for an Exchange Note, the date on which such Exchange
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to a purchaser who receives from such broker-dealer on or prior to the date of
such sale a copy of the prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration
Statement, (iii) the date on which such Security has been effectively registered
under the Securities Act and disposed of in accordance with the Shelf
Registration Statement or (iv) the date on which such Security is distributed to
the public pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act or is saleable pursuant
to Rule 144(k) under the Securities Act.

 

7.  Rules 144 and 144A.  The Company shall use its best efforts to file the
reports required to be filed by it under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act
in a timely manner and, if at any time the Company is not required to file such
reports, it will, upon the request of any Holder of Securities, make publicly
available other information so long as necessary to permit sales of their
securities pursuant to Rules 144 and 144A.  The Company covenants that it will
take such further action as any Holder of Securities may reasonably request, all
to the extent required from time to time to enable such Holder to sell
Securities without registration under the Securities Act within the limitation
of the exemptions provided by Rules 144 and 144A (including the requirements of
Rule 144A(d)(4)).  The Company will provide a copy of this Agreement to
prospective purchasers of Initial Securities identified to the Company by the
Initial Purchasers upon request.  Upon the request of any Holder of Initial
Securities, the Company shall deliver to such Holder a written statement as to
whether it has complied with such requirements.  Notwithstanding the foregoing,
nothing in this Section 7 shall be deemed to require the Company to register any
of its securities pursuant to the Exchange Act.

 

8.  Underwritten Registrations.  If any of the Transfer Restricted Securities
covered by any Shelf Registration are to be sold in an underwritten offering,
the investment banker or investment bankers and manager or managers that will
administer the offering (“Managing Underwriters”) will be selected by the
Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of such Transfer Restricted
Securities to be included in such offering.

 

No person may participate in any underwritten registration hereunder unless such
person (i) agrees to sell such person’s Transfer Restricted Securities on the
basis reasonably provided in any underwriting arrangements approved by the
persons entitled hereunder to approve such arrangements and (ii) completes and
executes all questionnaires, powers of attorney, indemnities, underwriting
agreements and other documents reasonably required under the terms of such
underwriting arrangements.

 

9.  Miscellaneous.

 

(a)  Remedies.  The Company acknowledges and agrees that any failure by the
Company to comply with its obligations under Section 1 and 2 hereof may result
in material irreparable injury to the Initial Purchasers or the Holders for
which there is no adequate remedy at law, that it will not be possible to
measure damages for such injuries precisely and that, in the event of any such
failure, the Initial Purchasers or any Holder may obtain such relief as may be
required to specifically enforce the Company’s obligations under Sections 1 and
2 hereof.  The Company further agrees to waive the defense in any action for
specific performance that a remedy at law would be adequate.

 

(b)  No Inconsistent Agreements.  The Company will not on or after the date of
this Agreement enter into any agreement with respect to its securities that is
inconsistent with the rights granted to the Holders in this Agreement or
otherwise conflicts with the provisions hereof.  The rights granted to the
Holders hereunder do not in any way conflict with and are not inconsistent with
the rights granted to the holders of the Company’s securities under any
agreement in effect on the date hereof.

 

(c)  Amendments and Waivers.  The provisions of this Agreement may not be
amended, modified or supplemented, and waivers or consents to departures from
the provisions hereof may not be given, except by the Company and the written
consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities
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(d)  Notices.  All notices and other communications provided for or permitted
hereunder shall be made in writing by hand delivery, first-class mail, facsimile
transmission, or air courier which guarantees overnight delivery:

 

(1)  if to a Holder of the Securities, at the most current address given by such
Holder to the Company.

 

(2)  if to the Initial Purchasers;

 

Credit Suisse First Boston LLC

Eleven Madison Avenue

New York, NY 10010-3629

Fax No.:  (212) 325-8278

Attention:  Transactions Advisory Group

 

with a copy to:

 

Latham & Watkins LLP

885 Third Avenue

New York, NY 10022

Fax No.: (212) 751-4864

Attn: Peter M. Labonski

 

 

(3)           if to the Company, at its address as follows:

 

Nextel Partners, Inc.

400 Carillon Point

Kirkland, WA 98033

Fax No.: (425) 828-8098

Attention: Donald Manning, Esq.

with a copy to:

 

Summit Law Group, PLLC

315 Fifth Avenue, S., Suite 1000

Seattle, WA 98104

Fax No.: (206) 676-7001

Attention: Laura A. Bertin

 

All such notices and communications shall be deemed to have been duly given:  at
the time delivered by hand, if personally delivered; three business days after
being deposited in the mail, postage prepaid, if mailed; when receipt is
acknowledged by recipient’s facsimile machine operator, if sent by facsimile
transmission; and on the day delivered, if sent by overnight air courier
guaranteeing next day delivery.

 

(e) Third Party Beneficiaries.  The Holders shall be third party beneficiaries
to the agreements made hereunder between the Company, on the one hand, and the
Initial Purchasers, on the other hand, and shall have the right to enforce such
agreements directly to the extent they may deem such enforcement necessary or
advisable to protect their rights or the rights of Holders hereunder.

 

(f)  Successors and Assigns.  This Agreement shall be binding upon the Company
and its successors and assigns.

 

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(g)  Counterparts.  This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts
and by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so
executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall
constitute one and the same agreement.

 

(h)  Headings.  The headings in this Agreement are for convenience of reference
only and shall not limit or otherwise affect the meaning hereof.

 

(i)  Governing Law.  THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO PRINCIPLES
OF CONFLICTS OF LAWS.

 

(j)  Severability.  If any one or more of the provisions contained herein, or
the application thereof in any circumstance, is held invalid, illegal or
unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of any such provision
in every other respect and of the remaining provisions contained herein shall
not be affected or impaired thereby.

 

(k)  Securities Held by the Company.  Whenever the consent or approval of
Holders of a specified percentage of principal amount of Securities is required
hereunder, Securities held by the Company or its affiliates (other than
subsequent Holders of Securities if such subsequent Holders are deemed to be
affiliates solely by reason of their holdings of such Securities) shall not be
counted in determining whether such consent or approval was given by the Holders
of such required percentage.

 

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If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding of our agreement,
please sign and return to the Company a counterpart hereof, whereupon this
instrument, along with all counterparts, will become a binding agreement among
the several Initial Purchasers and the Company in accordance with its terms.

 

 

Very truly yours,

 

 

 

Nextel Partners, Inc.

 

 

 

 

by

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Name:

 

 

 

Title:

 

 

The foregoing Registration

Rights Agreement is hereby confirmed

and accepted as of the date first

above written.

 

CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON LLC

MORGAN STANLEY & CO. INCORPORATED

UBS SECURITIES LLC

LEGG MASON WOOD WALKER, INCORPORATED

THOMAS WEISEL PARTNERS LLC

 

By:  CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON LLC

 

 

 

 

 

by

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Name:

 

 

 

Title:

 

 

 

 

 

By:  MORGAN STANLEY & CO. INCORPORATED

 

 

 

 

 

by

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Name:

 

 

Title:

 

 

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ANNEX A

 

Each broker-dealer that receives Exchange Securities for its own account
pursuant to the Exchange Offer must acknowledge that it will deliver a
prospectus in connection with any resale of such Exchange Securities.  The
Letter of Transmittal states that by so acknowledging and by delivering a
prospectus, a broker-dealer will not be deemed to admit that it is an
“underwriter” within the meaning of the Securities Act.  This Prospectus, as it
may be amended or supplemented from time to time, may be used by a broker-dealer
in connection with resales of Exchange Securities received in exchange for
Initial Securities where such Initial Securities were acquired by such
broker-dealer as a result of market-making activities or other trading
activities.  The Company has agreed that, for a period of 180 days after the
Expiration Date (as defined herein), it will make this Prospectus available to
any broker-dealer for use in connection with any such resale.  See “Plan of
Distribution.”

 

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ANNEX B

 

Each broker-dealer that receives Exchange Securities for its own account in
exchange for Initial Securities, where such Initial Securities were acquired by
such broker-dealer as a result of market-making activities or other trading
activities, must acknowledge that it will deliver a prospectus in connection
with any resale of such Exchange Securities.  See “Plan of Distribution.”

 

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ANNEX C

 

PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION

 

Each broker-dealer that receives Exchange Securities for its own account
pursuant to the Exchange Offer must acknowledge that it will deliver a
prospectus in connection with any resale of such Exchange Securities.  This
Prospectus, as it may be amended or supplemented from time to time, may be used
by a broker-dealer in connection with resales of Exchange Securities received in
exchange for Initial Securities where such Initial Securities were acquired as a
result of market-making activities or other trading activities.  The Company has
agreed that, for a period of 180 days after the Expiration Date, it will make
this prospectus, as amended or supplemented, available to any broker-dealer for
use in connection with any such resale.  In addition, until                    ,
200 , all dealers effecting transactions in the Exchange Securities may be
required to deliver a prospectus.(1)

 

The Company will not receive any proceeds from any sale of Exchange Securities
by broker-dealers.  Exchange Securities received by broker-dealers for their own
account pursuant to the Exchange Offer may be sold from time to time in one or
more transactions in the over-the-counter market, in negotiated transactions,
through the writing of options on the Exchange Securities or a combination of
such methods of resale, at market prices prevailing at the time of resale, at
prices related to such prevailing market prices or negotiated prices.  Any such
resale may be made directly to purchasers or to or through brokers or dealers
who may receive compensation in the form of commissions or concessions from any
such broker-dealer or the purchasers of any such Exchange Securities.  Any
broker-dealer that resells Exchange Securities that were received by it for its
own account pursuant to the Exchange Offer and any broker or dealer that
participates in a distribution of such Exchange Securities may be deemed to be
an “underwriter” within the meaning of the Securities Act and any profit on any
such resale of Exchange Securities and any commission or concessions received by
any such persons may be deemed to be underwriting compensation under the
Securities Act.  The Letter of Transmittal states that, by acknowledging that it
will deliver and by delivering a prospectus, a broker-dealer will not be deemed
to admit that it is an “underwriter” within the meaning of the Securities Act.

 

For a period of 180 days after the Expiration Date the Company will promptly
send additional copies of this Prospectus and any amendment or supplement to
this Prospectus to any broker-dealer that requests such documents in the Letter
of Transmittal.  The Company has agreed to pay all expenses incident to the
Exchange Offer (including the expenses of one counsel for the Holders of the
Securities) other than commissions or concessions of any brokers or dealers and
will indemnify the Holders of the Securities (including any broker-dealers)
against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act.

 

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(1)                                  In addition, the legend required by Item
502(e) of Regulation S-K will appear on the back cover page of the Exchange
Offer prospectus.

 

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ANNEX D

 

o            CHECK HERE IF YOU ARE A BROKER-DEALER AND WISH TO RECEIVE 10
ADDITIONAL COPIES OF THE PROSPECTUS AND 10 COPIES OF ANY AMENDMENTS OR
SUPPLEMENTS THERETO.

 

Name:                                                                                 

Address:                                                                              

 

 

If the undersigned is not a broker-dealer, the undersigned represents that it is
not engaged in, and does not intend to engage in, a distribution of Exchange
Securities.  If the undersigned is a broker-dealer that will receive Exchange
Securities for its own account in exchange for Initial Securities that were
acquired as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities, it
acknowledges that it will deliver a prospectus in connection with any resale of
such Exchange Securities; however, by so acknowledging and by delivering a
prospectus, the undersigned will not be deemed to admit that it is an
“underwriter” within the meaning of the Securities Act.

 

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