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      As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 17, 1996

                                                  Registration No. 333-_____
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                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549


                                    FORM S-8
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      under
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933


                              OMNIPOINT CORPORATION
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

                           2000 14th Street N.
Delaware                Arlington, Virginia 22201                04-2969720
(State or other    Address of principal executive offices)    (I.R.S. Employer
jurisdiction of                                              Identification No.)
incorporation or
organization)

                              OMNIPOINT CORPORATION
                              AMENDED AND RESTATED
                             1990 STOCK OPTION PLAN
                            (Full title of the plan)

                                                    Copy to:
      DOUGLAS G. SMITH                        EDWIN M. MARTIN, ESQ.
      Omnipoint Corporation                   NANCY A. SPANGLER, ESQ.
      2000 North 14th Street                  Piper & Marbury L.L.P.
      Arlington, Virginia  22201              1200 Nineteenth Street, N.W.
      (703) 522-7778                          Washington, D.C. 20036
                                                    (202) 861-3900

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


                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
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     TITLE OF SECURITIES                           PROPOSED MAXIMUM       PROPOSED MAXIMUM          AMOUNT OF
      TO BE REGISTERED          AMOUNT TO BE      OFFERING PRICE PER      AGGREGATE OFFERING      REGISTRATION FEE
                                 REGISTERED              SHARE                   PRICE
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Common Stock (par value
$0.01 per share)

Amended and  Restated  Stock     4,226,305           $ 5.67 (1)            $ 23,963,149 (1)         $ 8,263 (1)
Option Plan
                                 2,023,695         $ 27.875 (2)            $ 56,410,498 (2)        $ 19,452 (2)
 
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(1)  Calculated  pursuant  to Rule  457(h)  on the basis of a  weighted  average
     exercise price of $5.67 per share.
(2)  Estimated  pursuant to Rule 457 solely for the purpose of  calculating  the
     registration  fee on the  basis of the  closing  price of $27 7/8 per share
     reported on the Nasdaq National Market on May 15, 1996.
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                                     PART II

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT


ITEM 3.           INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE.

         The  following  documents  and  information  previously  filed with the
Securities and Exchange  Commission (the "Commission") by Omnipoint  Corporation
(the  "Company")  are hereby  incorporated  by  reference  in this  Registration
Statement:

         (1) The Company's  Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
December 31, 1995,  filed pursuant to Section 13 of the Securities  Exchange Act
of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act").

         (2) The Company's  Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter
ended March 31, 1996, filed pursuant to Section 13 of the Exchange Act.

         (3) The  description  of the  Company's  Common Stock  contained in the
Company's  Amendment No. 1 to Registration  Statement on Form 8-A filed December
22, 1995, pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act.

         (4) The  description  of the Company's  Amended and Restated 1990 Stock
Option  Plan  contained  in its  Registration  Statement  on Form S-1,  File No.
33-98360,  filed on October  19,  1995,  under the  Securities  Act of 1933,  as
amended.
         All documents filed by the Company  pursuant to Sections 13(a),  13(c),
14 or 15(d) of the  Exchange  Act  subsequent  to the date of this  Registration
Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective  amendment which indicates
that all securities  offered have been sold or which  deregisters all securities
remaining  unsold  shall be deemed to be  incorporated  by  reference  into this
Registration  Statement  and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such
documents.  Any statement  contained in a document  incorporated or deemed to be
incorporated  by reference  herein shall be deemed to be modified or  superseded
for  purposes  of this  Registration  Statement  to the extent  that a statement
contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is or is
deemed to be  incorporated  by  reference  herein  modifies or  supersedes  such
statement.  The documents  required to be so modified or superseded shall not be
deemed,  except as so  modified  or  superseded,  to  constitute  a part of this
Registration Statement.

ITEM 4.  DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES.  Not applicable.

ITEM 5.  INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL.

         Counsel for the Company, Piper & Marbury L.L.P., Washington,  D.C., has
rendered an opinion to the effect that the Common Stock  offered  hereby is duly
and validly  issued,  fully paid and  nonassessable.  Certain members of Piper &
Marbury L.L.P.,  or investment  partnerships of which such persons are partners,
beneficially own approximately 1,200 shares of the Company's Common Stock.

ITEM 6.           INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.

         The  Company's  By-laws  provide  that the Company  shall,  to the full
extent  permitted by Section 145 of the General  Corporation Law of the State of
Delaware,  as  amended  from time to time,  indemnify  all  persons  whom it may
indemnify  pursuant  thereto.   In  addition,   the  Company's   Certificate  of
Incorporation  eliminates personal liability of its directors to the full extent
permitted by Section  102(b)(7) of the General  Corporation  Law of the State of
Delaware, as amended from time to time.
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         Section  145 of the  General  Corporation  Law of the State of Delaware
permits a corporation to indemnify its directors and officers  against  expenses
(including  attorneys' fees),  judgments,  fines and amounts paid in settlements
actually and reasonably  incurred by them in connection with any action, suit or
proceeding brought by third parties, if such directors or officers acted in good
faith and in a manner  they  reasonably  believed to be in or not opposed to the
best interests of the  corporation  and, with respect to any criminal  action or
proceeding, had no reason to believe their conduct was unlawful. In a derivative
action, i.e., one by or in the right of the corporation,  indemnification may be
made only for  expenses  actually  and  reasonably  incurred  by  directors  and
officers in connection  with the defense or settlement of an action or suit, and
only with  respect  to a matter as to which  they shall have acted in good faith
and in a manner  they  reasonably  believed  to be in or not opposed to the best
interest of the  corporation,  except that no  indemnification  shall be made if
such person shall have been adjudged liable to the corporation,  unless and only
to the  extent  that the court in which the  action  or suit was  brought  shall
determine  upon  application  that  the  defendant  officers  or  directors  are
reasonably  entitled to indemnity for such expenses despite such adjudication of
liability.

         Section  102(b)(7)  of the  General  Corporation  Law of the  State  of
Delaware  provides  that a  corporation  may  eliminate  or limit  the  personal
liability  of a director to the  corporation  or its  stockholders  for monetary
damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, provided that such provision
shall not  eliminate or limit the  liability of a director (i) for any breach of
the director's duty of loyalty to the corporation or its stockholders,  (ii) for
acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a
knowing violation of law, (iii) under Section 174 of the General Corporation Law
of the State of Delaware,  or (iv) for any  transaction  from which the director
derived an improper personal benefit. No such provision shall eliminate or limit
the liability of a director for any act or omission  occurring prior to the date
when such provision becomes effective.

ITEM 7.  EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED.  Not applicable.

ITEM 8.  EXHIBITS.

    Exhibit
    Number   Description

    5.1      Opinion of Piper & Marbury L.L.P., as to the legality of securities
             being registered.

    10.1     Amended and Restated 1990 Stock Option Plan of the Company.

    23.1     Consent of Counsel (contained in Exhibit 5.1).

    23.2     Consent of Independent Accountants.

    24.1     Power of Attorney (included in signature pages).

ITEM 9.           UNDERTAKINGS.

         (a)    The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:


                (1) To file,  during  any  period  in which  offers or sales are
being made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement to include
any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously
disclosed  in  the  Registration  Statement  or  any  material  change  to  such
information in the Registration Statement.

                (2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be
a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such  securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.

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                (3) To remove  from  registration  by means of a  post-effective
amendment  any of the  securities  being  registered  which remain unsold at the
termination of the offering.

         (b) The undersigned  Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining  any liability  under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the
registrant's  annual  report  pursuant to section  13(a) or section 15(d) of the
Securities  Exchange  Act of 1934  (and,  where  applicable,  each  filing of an
employee  benefit  plan's  annual  report  pursuant  to  section  15(d)  of  the
Securities  Exchange  Act of 1934)  that is  incorporated  by  reference  in the
registration  statement  shall  be  deemed  to be a new  Registration  Statement
relating to the securities offered therein,  and the offering of such securities
at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

         (c)  Insofar  as  indemnification  for  liabilities  arising  under the
Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors,  officers and  controlling
persons of the Registrant  pursuant to the foregoing  provisions,  or otherwise,
the  Registrant  has been  advised  that in the  opinion of the  Securities  and
Exchange  Commission such  indemnification is against public policy as expressed
in the Act and is,  therefore,  unenforceable.  In the  event  that a claim  for
indemnification  against  such  liabilities  (other  than  the  payment  by  the
registrant of expenses  incurred or paid by a director,  officer or  controlling
person of the  registrant  in the  successful  defense  of any  action,  suit or
proceeding)  is  asserted by such  director,  officer or  controlling  person in
connection with the securities being registered,  the Registrant will, unless in
the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
submit  to a  court  of  appropriate  jurisdiction  the  question  whether  such
indemnification  by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will
be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

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                                   SIGNATURES

         Pursuant  to the  requirements  of the  Securities  Act  of  1933,  the
Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all
of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration
statement  to be  signed  on its  behalf  by  the  undersigned,  thereunto  duly
authorized,  in the City of Arlington,  and the Commonwealth of Virginia on this
17th day of May, 1996.

                          OMNIPOINT CORPORATION


                          By:   /s/ Douglas G. Smith
                                Douglas G.Smith,President,Chief Executive
                                Officer,and Chairman of the Board


                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
this  Registration  Statement has been signed below by the following  persons in
the capacities and on the date indicated.

         Each person  whose  signature  appears  below in so signing also makes,
constitutes and appoints Douglas G. Smith and Edwin M. Martin,  Jr., and each of
them  acting  alone,  his true and lawful  attorney-in-fact,  with full power of
substitution,  for him in any and all  capacities,  to  execute  and cause to be
filed with the  Securities  and Exchange  Commission  any and all amendments and
post-effective  amendments  to this  Registration  Statement  on Form S-8,  with
exhibits  thereto  and other  documents  in  connection  therewith,  and  hereby
ratifies  and  confirms  all that said  attorney-in-fact  or his  substitute  or
substitutes may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.




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A MAJORITY OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS:

Signature                              Title                          Date

 /s/ Douglas G. Smith      President, Chief Executive             May 17, 1996
- -------------------------  Officer, Chairman of the
 Douglas G. Smith          Board and Director (Principal         
                           Executive Officer)    
                               


 /s/ George F. Schmitt     Executive Vice President and           May 17, 1996
- -------------------------  Director; President of
 George F. Schmitt         Omnipoint Communications Inc.        


 /s/ Bradley E. Sparks     Chief Financial Officer                May 17, 1996
 Bradley E. Sparks         (Principal Financial and
                           Accounting Officer)


 /s/ James J. Ross         Director and Vice Chairman,            May 17, 1996
- -------------------------  of the Board
 James J. Ross                 


 /s/ Evelyn Goldfine       Director                               May 17, 1996
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 Evelyn Goldfine


 /s/ Richard L. Fields     Director                               May 17, 1996
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 Richard L. Fields


 /s/ Paul J. Finnegan      Director                               May 17, 1996
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 Paul J. Finnegan


 /s/ James N. Perry, Jr.   Director                               May 17, 1996
- --------------------------
 James N. Perry, Jr.


 /s/ Arjun Gupta           Director                               May 17, 1996
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 Arjun Gupta


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                                  EXHIBIT INDEX

 Exhibit
 Number   Description

 5.1      Opinion of Piper & Marbury L.L.P. (contains Consent of Counsel).

 10.1*    Amended and Restated 1990 Stock Option Plan of the Company.

 23.1     Consent of Counsel (contained in Exhibit 5.1).

 23.2     Consent of Independent Accountants.

 24.1     Power of Attorney (included in signature pages).

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*    Incorporated by reference to the Company's Registration Statement, File No.
     33-98360, filed on October 19, 1995.

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                                                                     Exhibit 5.1
                                 PIPER & MARBURY
                                     L.L.P.
                          1200 NINETEENTH STREET, N.W.
                           WASHINGTON, D.C. 20036-2430
                                  202-861-3900
                                FAX: 202-223-2085
                                                           BALTIMORE
                                                           NEW YORK
                                                          PHILADELPHIA
                                                            EASTON
                                                            LONDON


                                  May 17, 1996

Omnipoint Corporation
2000 North 14th Street, Suite 550
Arlington, Virginia  22201

         Re:      Registration Statement on Form S-8

Ladies and Gentlemen:

         We have examined the Registration  Statement on Form S-8 to be filed by
you with the  Securities  and Exchange  Commission on or about May 17, 1996 (the
"Registration  Statement"),  in  connection  with  the  registration  under  the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of 6,250,000 shares of Common Stock reserved
for issuance  under the  Omnipoint  Amended and Restated  1990 Stock Option Plan
(the "Plan"). As your legal counsel,  we have examined the proceedings  proposed
to be taken by you in connection with the sale and issuance of said shares.

         It is our opinion that,  upon completion of the proceedings to be taken
prior to issuance of the shares pursuant to the Prospectus  constituting part of
the  Registration  Statement on Form S-8 and upon  completion of the proceedings
being taken in order to permit such transactions to be carried out in accordance
with the securities laws of the various states where required,  the shares, when
issued and sold in the manner  referred to in the Plan and the agreements  which
accompany the Plan,  and in accordance  with the Company's  Amended and Restated
Certificate of Incorporation, will be legally and validly issued, fully paid and
nonassessable.

         We  consent  to  the  use  of  this  opinion  as  an  exhibit  to  said
Registration  Statement  and  further  consent  to the use of our name  wherever
appearing in said Registration Statement and amendments thereto.

                                         Very truly yours,

                                         /s/ Piper & Marbury L.L.P.


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                                                                    Exhibit 23.1










                       CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANTS

     We consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement
of Omnipoint  Corporation on Form S-8 of our report dated March 15, 1996 on our
audit of the consolidated  financial statements and financial statement schedule
of Omnipoint  Corporation  as of December  31, 1995 and 1994,  and for the three
years ended  December 31, 1995 which report is included in its Annual  Report on
Form 10-K as filed with the Securities and Exchange  Commission  pursuant to the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
                                                   COOPERS & LYBRAND L.L.P.


Boston, Massachusetts
May 17, 1996




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