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                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION


                             Washington, D.C. 20549

                              Amendment No. 1 to
                                    FORM 8-K


                                 CURRENT REPORT


     PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934


       Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): February 1, 2000



            METRICOM, INC.                        METRICOM FINANCE, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified    (Exact name of registrant as specified
            in its charter)                           in its charter)
               DELAWARE                                  DELAWARE
     (State or other jurisdiction           (State of or other jurisdiction of
           of incorporation)                          incorporation)
              77-0294597                                77-0529272
   (IRS Employer Identification No.)         (IRS Employer Identification No.)
                0-19903                                333-91359-01
       (Commission File Number)                  (Commission File Number)




                             980 UNIVERSITY AVENUE,
                        LOS GATOS, CALIFORNIA 95030-2375
              (Address of principal executive offices and zip code)

       Registrants' telephone number, including area code: (408) 399-8200





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ITEM 7. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, PRO FORMA FINANCIAL INFORMATION AND EXHIBITS.

         (C) Exhibits.

             EXHIBIT NO.        DESCRIPTION

                1.3             Terms Agreement dated February 2, 2000 among
                                Metricom, Inc., Metricom Finance, Inc. and the
                                underwriters named therein relating to the
                                issuance and sale of $300,000,000 aggregate
                                principal amount of their 13% Senior Notes due
                                2010.




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                          SIGNATURES OF METRICOM, INC.


         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.



Date: February 15, 2000                        METRICOM, INC.


                                               By: /s/ James E. Wall
                                                   ----------------------------
                                                   James E. Wall
                                                   Chief Financial Officer



                      SIGNATURES OF METRICOM FINANCE, INC.


         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.




Date:   February 15, 2000                      METRICOM FINANCE, INC.


                                               By: /s/ James E. Wall
                                                   ----------------------------
                                                   James E. Wall
                                                   Chief Financial Officer






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                                  EXHIBIT INDEX



<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
EXHIBIT
NUMBER         DESCRIPTION
- ------         -----------
<S>            <C>

1.3            Terms Agreement dated February 2, 2000 among Metricom, Inc.,
               Metricom Finance, Inc. and the underwriters named therein
               relating to the issuance and sale of $300,000,000 aggregate
               principal amount of their 13% Senior Notes due 2010.

</TABLE>







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                                                                     EXHIBIT 1.3


                              LEHMAN BROTHERS INC.
                            SALOMON SMITH BARNEY INC.
                              CHASE SECURITIES INC.
                          J. P. MORGAN SECURITIES INC.
               MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED
                 As Representatives of the Several Underwriters
                            C/O LEHMAN BROTHERS INC.
                            3 World Financial Center
                            New York, New York 10285

                                 Debt Securities

                                 TERMS AGREEMENT

                                                         Dated: February 2, 2000

To:   METRICOM, INC.
      METRICOM FINANCE, INC.
      980 University Avenue
      Los Gatos, California 95032

               Re: Underwriting Agreement dated February 1, 2000.

Dear Sirs:

        We (the "Representatives") understand that Metricom, Inc., a Delaware
corporation, and Metricom Finance, Inc. (each individually a "Company" and
collectively, the "Issuers"), propose to issue and sell $300,000,000 aggregate
principal amount of their 13% Senior Notes due 2010 (the "Senior Notes") and
associated warrants to purchase an aggregate of 1,425,000 shares of Common Stock
of Metricom, Inc. This agreement is a Terms Agreement referred to in the
underwriting agreement dated February 1, 2000 (the "Underwriting Agreement").
Terms used herein but not otherwise defined shall have the meaning ascribed to
such terms in the Underwriting Agreement, the Indenture, dated as of December
29, 1999, as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture thereto, dated as
of February 7, 2000, relating to the Senior Notes (the "Indenture") and the
Warrant Agreement, dated as of February 7, 2000. Subject to the terms and
conditions set forth herein or incorporated by reference herein, the
Underwriters named below (the "Underwriters") offer to purchase, severally and
not jointly, the amount of Senior Notes and at the terms set forth below.
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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                         PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF
        UNDERWRITER                         SENIOR NOTES
        -----------                      -------------------
<S>                                      <C>
        Lehman Brothers Inc.                $141,000,000
        Salomon Smith Barney Inc.             72,000,000
        Chase Securities Inc.                 34,500,000
        J. P. Morgan Securities Inc.          34,500,000
        Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner
           & Smith Incorporated               18,000,000
                                            ------------
        TOTAL                               $300,000,000
                                            ============
</TABLE>

                                      TERMS

        TITLE OF DEBT SECURITIES:   Senior Notes

        SENIOR OR SUBORDINATED:     Senior

        CURRENCY:                   US Dollars

        CURRENT RATINGS:            B-/B3

        INTEREST RATE OR FORMULA:   13%

        INTEREST PAYMENT DATES:     February 15 and August 15 of each year
                                    commencing August 15, 2000.

        DATE OF MATURITY:           February 15, 2010

        UNITS: Each Senior Note must be purchased with an associated warrant to
               purchase 4.75 shares of Common Stock of the Company (the
               "Warrants"). Each unit will consist of a Warrant and $1,000
               principal amount of Senior Notes. The Senior Notes and Warrants
               will not be separately transferable until the Separation Date,
               which will be the earlier of (i) August 15, 2000, (ii) the
               occurrence of an Event of Default under the Indenture, (iii) the
               occurrence of an Exercise Event, as defined in the Warrant
               Agreement; dated as of February 7, 2000, in connection with the
               Warrants and (iv) such other date as Lehman Brothers Inc. shall
               determine in its sole discretion.

        REDEMPTION PROVISIONS: Optional Redemption - Issuers may pay redeem a
               part or all of the Senior Notes on or after February 15, 2005, at
               the following redemption prices:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                      Year                                Redemption Price
                      ----                                ----------------
<S>                                                       <C>
                      2005                                       108.00%
</TABLE>


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<TABLE>
<S>                                                       <C>
                      2006                                       106.00%
                      2007                                       104.00%
                      2008                                       102.00%
                      2009 and thereafter                        100.00%
</TABLE>

               There is no provision for mandatory redemption; however, the
               Issuers are required to offer to purchase the outstanding Senior
               Notes at a purchase price equal to 101% of their principal amount
               in the event of a Change of Control or with the Excess Proceeds
               of certain Asset Sales.

        SINKING FUND REQUIREMENTS:   None

        PUBLIC OFFERING PRICE:       100%

        PURCHASE PRICE:              $229,881,495

        LISTING REQUIREMENT:         None

        CONVERTIBLE:                 No

        CONVERSION PROVISIONS:       None

        DELIVERY DATE AND LOCATION: Senior Notes in definitive global form,
        registered in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee of The Depository Trust
        Company, having an aggregate amount corresponding to the aggregate
        principal amount of the Senior Notes will be delivered on February 7,
        2000 at the offices of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, 2882 Sandhill Road,
        Suite 280, Menlo Park, California 94025 at 10:00 a.m., New York City
        time.

        ADDITIONAL REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND AGREEMENTS: The Company
        represents, warrants and agrees as follows:

               1. To use the proceeds from the sale of the Senior Notes in the
        manner described in the prospectus supplement relating to the Senior
        Notes under the caption "Use of Proceeds," and not to voluntarily claim,
        and to resist actively any attempts to claim, the benefit of any usury
        laws against the holders of any Senior Notes.

               2. Not to take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to,
        or that might reasonably be expected to, cause or result in
        stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the
        Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Senior Notes in
        violation of the Exchange Act or any applicable rules of the Nasdaq
        National Market. Except as permitted by the Securities Act, neither the
        Company nor any future Guarantor will distribute any (i) Prospectus,
        (ii) Prospectus Supplement, or (iii) other offering material in
        connection with the offering and sale of the Senior Notes. Neither the
        Company nor any of its subsidiaries has (A) taken, directly or
        indirectly, any action designed to, or that might reasonably be expected
        to, cause or result in


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        stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the
        Company or any of its subsidiaries to facilitate the sale or resale of
        the Senior Notes or (B) since the date of the Preliminary Prospectus
        Supplement (1) sold, bid for, purchased or paid any person any
        compensation for soliciting purchases of the Senior Notes or (2) paid or
        agreed to pay to any person any compensation for soliciting another to
        purchase any other securities of the Company or any of its subsidiaries.

               3. None of the execution, delivery and performance of this
        Agreement, the issuance and sale of the Senior Notes, the application of
        the proceeds from the issuance and sale of the Senior Notes and the
        consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby as set forth in
        the Prospectus and Prospectus Supplement, will violate Regulations T, U
        or X promulgated by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
        or analogous foreign laws and regulations.

               4. The Company does not intend to, and does not believe that it
        will, incur debts beyond its ability to pay such debts as they mature.
        The present fair saleable value of the assets of the Company exceeds the
        amount that will be required to be paid on or in respect of its existing
        debts and other liabilities (including contingent liabilities) as they
        become absolute and matured. The assets of the Company do not constitute
        unreasonably small capital to carry out its business as conducted or as
        proposed to be conducted. Upon the issuance or assumption, as
        applicable, of the Senior Notes, the present fair saleable value of the
        assets of the Company will exceed the amount that will be required to be
        paid on or in respect of its existing debts and other liabilities
        (including contingent liabilities) as they become absolute and matured.
        Upon the issuance or assumption, as applicable, of the Senior Notes, the
        assets of the Company will not constitute unreasonably small capital to
        carry out its business as now conducted, including the capital needs of
        those entities, taking into account the projected capital requirements
        and capital availability.

               5. There exist no conditions that would constitute a material
        default (or an event which with notice or the lapse of time, or both,
        would constitute a material default) under the Indenture, any
        supplemental indenture, the Underwriting Agreement or any other Terms
        Agreement relating thereto or the Senior Notes.

               6. Each certificate signed by any officer of the Company and
        delivered to the Representatives or counsel for the Representatives on
        the Delivery Date shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty by
        the Company, as the case may be, to the Representatives as to the
        matters covered thereby.

               7. All licenses and authorizations issued by the Federal
        Communications Commission ("FCC") and state authorities governing
        telecommunications matters (the "Licenses") required for the operation
        of the business of the Company and its subsidiaries are in full force
        and effect there are no pending modifications, amendments or revocation
        proceedings which would adversely affect the operation of any of the
        telecommunications business currently owned by the Company and its
        subsidiaries (the "Businesses"). All fees requested by governmental
        authorities


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        pursuant to the rules governing Licenses have been paid. No event has
        occurred with respect to the Licenses held by the Company, or its
        subsidiaries, which, with the giving of notice or the lapse of time or
        both, would constitute grounds for revocation of any Licenses. Each of
        the Company and its subsidiaries is in compliance in all material
        respects with the terms of the Licenses, as applicable, and there is no
        condition, event or occurrence existing, nor is there any proceeding
        being conducted of which the Company has received notice, nor, to the
        Company's knowledge, is there any proceeding threatened, by any
        governmental authority, which would cause the termination, suspension,
        cancellation or non-renewal of any of the Licenses, or the imposition of
        any penalty or fine (that is material to the Company and its
        subsidiaries, taken as a whole) by any regulatory authority. No
        registrations, filings, applications, notices, transfers, consents,
        approvals, audits, qualifications, waivers or other action of any kind
        is required by virtue of the execution, delivery and performance of this
        Terms Agreement or any other agreement relating to the transactions
        contemplated hereby by the Company and the consummation of the
        transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, and the issuance and
        delivery of the Senior Notes, to avoid the loss of any such License,
        permit, consent, concession or other authorization or any asset,
        property or right pursuant to the terms thereof, or the violation or
        breach of any applicable law thereto.

               8. The Company and its subsidiaries have reviewed the areas
        within their business and operations which could reasonably be expected
        to have an "Year 2000 Problem" (that is, the risk that computer
        applications used by the Company and its subsidiaries may be unable to
        recognize and perform properly date-sensitive functions involving
        certain dates prior to and any date after December 31, 1999) that would
        have a material adverse effect on the Company and have developed a
        program to address on a timely basis any such problem, and (ii) based on
        such review and program, the "Year 2000 Problem" will not, or is not
        reasonably likely to, have a material adverse effect on the Company, and
        further, the statements contained under the caption "Risk Factors - We
        face risks in connection with the year 2000" in the Preliminary
        Prospectus Supplement and the Prospectus Supplement relating to the
        Common Stock are true.

        LOCK-UP PROVISIONS:           N/A

        NUMBER OF OPTION SECURITIES:  N/A

        OTHER TERMS AND CONDITIONS:

               1. The respective obligations of the Underwriters hereunder are
        subject to the accuracy when made on the Delivery Date, of the
        representations and warranties of the Company contained herein and in
        the Underwriting Agreement, to the performance by the Company of its
        obligations hereunder and thereunder, and to each of the following terms
        and conditions:


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                      a. Prior to the applicable Delivery Date, the Company
               shall have furnished to the Representatives such further
               information, certificates and documents as the Representatives
               may reasonably request.

                      b. The Company and the Trustee shall have entered into the
               supplemental indenture and the Representatives shall have
               received copies of executed counterparts thereof.

                      c. On or after the date hereof, (i) there shall not have
               occurred any downgrading, suspension or withdrawal of, nor shall
               any notice have been given of any potential or intended
               downgrading, suspension or withdrawal of, or of any review (or of
               any potential or intended review) for a possible change that does
               not indicate the direction of the possible change in, any rating
               of the Company or any securities of the Company (including,
               without limitation, the placing of any of the foregoing ratings
               on credit watch with negative or developing implications or under
               review with an uncertain direction) by any "nationally recognized
               statistical rating organization" as such term is defined for
               purposes of Rule 436(g)(2) under the Act, (ii) there shall not
               have occurred any change, nor shall any notice have been given of
               any potential or intended change, in the outlook for any rating
               of the Company or any securities of the Company by any such
               rating organization and (iii) no such rating organization shall
               have given notice that it has assigned (or is considering
               assigning) a lower rating to the Senior Notes than that on which
               the Senior Notes were marketed.

                      d. Cooley Godward LLP shall have furnished to the
               Representatives their written opinion, as counsel to the Company,
               addressed to the Underwriters and dated the applicable Delivery
               Date, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
               Representatives, to the effect that:

                             i) The statements contained in the Prospectus under
                      the captions "Description of Debt Securities" and in the
                      Prospectus Supplement under the captions "Management --
                      Executive Compensation," "Principal Stockholders" and
                      "Description of the Notes," and insofar as they describe
                      charter documents, contracts, statutes, rules and
                      regulations and other legal matters, constitute an
                      accurate summary thereof in all material respects;

                             ii) The statements contained in the Prospectus
                      Supplement under the caption "Certain U.S. Federal Income
                      Tax Consequences," insofar as they describe federal
                      statutes, rules and regulations, constitute an accurate
                      summary thereof in all material respects.

                      e. The Company, Metricom Finance, Inc., the Trustee and
               the Escrow Agent shall have entered into the Pledge Agreement and
               each of the Representatives shall have received copies of
               executed counterparts thereof.


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                      f. The Company, Metricom Finance, Inc., the Warrant Agent
               and the Initial Warrant Agent shall have entered into the Warrant
               Agreement and each of the Representatives shall have received
               copies of executed counterparts thereof.

                      g. The Company, Metricom Finance, Inc., or an affiliate
               thereof shall have deposited cash or U.S. Government Securities
               in amounts sufficient to cover the first four cash interest
               payments on the Notes.

                      h. The offering of Warrants (the "Warrants Offering")
               shall have been completed, it being understood that the Warrants
               Offering is conditioned upon the offering of Senior Notes
               contemplated herein.

               2. In accordance with Section 7(a) of the Underwriting Agreement,
        the Underwriters severally confirm and the Company acknowledges that the
        statements with respect to the public offering of the Senior Notes by
        the Underwriters set forth in the last paragraph on the cover page of,
        and the information contained in the paragraphs entitled "Miscellaneous"
        under the caption "Underwriting" in, the Prospectus Supplement are
        correct and constitute the only information concerning such Underwriters
        furnished in writing to the Company by or on behalf of the Underwriters
        specifically for inclusion in the Registration Statement, Prospectus and
        Prospectus Supplement.

               3.     Notices to Underwriters:

                      Lehman Brothers Inc.
                      Three World Financial Center
                      New York, New York 10285
                      Attention:  World Financial Center

                      Salomon Smith Barney Inc.
                      388 Greenwich Street
                      New York, New York 10013
                      Attention:  Legal Department


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                                     Very truly yours,


                                     Lehman Brothers Inc.
                                     Salomon Smith Barney Inc.
                                     Chase Securities Inc.
                                     J. P. Morgan Securities Inc.
                                     Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith
                                                          Incorporated

                                     For itself, as Sole Book-Running Manager
                                     and as Representative of the
                                     several Underwriters named above

                                     By  LEHMAN BROTHERS INC.


                                     By: /s/ Perry Hoffmeister
                                         ---------------------------------------
                                             Perry Hoffmeister
                                             Managing Director

Accepted:

METRICOM, INC.

By /s/ Timothy A. Dreisbach
   --------------------------------
   Name: Timothy A. Dreisbach
   Title: President and CEO

METRICOM FINANCE, INC.

By /s/ Timothy A. Dreisbach
   --------------------------------
   Name: Timothy A. Dreisbach
   Title: President and CEO


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