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U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 3 OMB APPROVAL
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OMB NUMBER 3235-0104
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INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES
Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
Section 17(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or
Section 30(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
1. Name and Address of Reporting Person
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(Last) (First) (Middle)
Van Devender, William J.
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(Street)
c/o VanCom, Inc.
P.O. Box
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(City) (State) (Zip)
Jackson, Mississippi 39296
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2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year)
7/29/96
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3. IRS or Social Security Number of Reporting Person (Voluntary)
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4. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
Wireless One, Inc. WIRL
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5. Relationship of Reporting Person to Issuer:
(Check all applicable)
X Director 10% Owner
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Officer (give Other (Specify
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6. If Amendment, Date of Original (Month/Day/Year)
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Table 1 -- Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security 2. Amount of Securities 3. Ownership Form: 4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership
(Instr. 4) Beneficially Owned Direct (D) or (Instr. 5)
(Instr. 4) Indirect (I)
(Instr. 5)
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common stock, par value
$0.01 per share ("Common As a director and the controlling share-
Stock") 42,560 shares I holder of VanCom, Inc. ("VanCom")
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Common Stock 390,135 shares I (See explanation As a director and the controlling
(See explanation (1) below) (1) below) shareholder of VanCom
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Common Stock 32,400 shares D (See explanation
(See explanation (2) below) (2) below)
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Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially
owned directly or indirectly.
(Print or Type Responses)
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Table II -- Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security 2. Date Exer- 3. Title and Amount of Securities 4. Conversion 5. Ownership 6. Nature of
cisable and Underlying Derivative Security or Exercise Form of Indirect
Expiration (Instr. 4) Price of Derivative Beneficial
Date Derivative Security: Ownership
(Month/Day/ Security Direct (D) (Instr. 5)
Year) or
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Date Expira- Amount (Instr. 5)
Exer- tion or
cisable Date Title Number
of
Shares
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Explanation of Responses:
(1) Pursuant to the consummation of the agreement and plan of merger
dated April 25, 1996 by and among TruVision Wireless, Inc., Wireless One, Inc.
(the "Company") and Wireless One Mergersub, Inc. (the "Merger"), Missippi
Wireless TV, L.P. ("MWTV"), has the right to receive up to 1,702,406 shares of
Common Stock (of which 1,553,706 shares are presently owned of record by MWTV
and 148,700 shares are presently held in escrow pursuant to the certain escrow
agreements entered into in connection with the Merger). Pursuant to an Amendment
to Restatement of Agreement dated August 10, 1995, dated November 11, 1995, the
general partner of MWTV, Wireless TV, Inc. ("WTV"), and VanCom, the sole limited
partner of MWTV agreed that the rights to allocations and distributions from
MWTV will be vested 77.0833% in WTV and 22.9167% in VanCom. Under this
agreement, if the assets of MWTV were to be distributed, WTV would receive up to
1,312,271 shares of Common Stock and VanCom would receive up to 390,135 shares
of Common Stock.
(2) Pursuant to a Letter Agreement dated June 29, 1995, between Mr.
Van Devender, VanCom, Inc., Henry M. Burkhalter, MWTV, WTV, Vision
Communications, Inc. and TruVision Wireless, Inc., Mr. Van Devender is entitled
to receive 18% of the 180,000 shares (i.e. 32,400) of Common Stock issued to
Vision Communications, Inc. by the Company in connection with the Merger.
**Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal
Violations.
See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a).
/s/ William J. Van Devender August 9, 1996
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**Signature of Reporting Person Date
Note: File three copies of this Form, one of which must be manually signed. If
space provided is insufficient, see Instruction 6 for procedure.
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