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                                                                   Exhibit 23.2

                   CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS

The Board of Directors
AirGate PCS, Inc.:

   We consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement
on Form S-3 of AirGate PCS, Inc. and subsidiaries of our reports dated November
10, 2000, with respect to the consolidated balance sheets of AirGate PCS, Inc.
and subsidiaries as of September 30, 2000 and 1999, and the related
consolidated statements of operations, stockholders' equity (deficit), and cash
flows for the year ended September 30, 2000, the nine month period ended
September 30, 1999, and the year ended December 31, 1998, and the related
financial statement schedule, which reports appear in the September 30, 2000,
annual report on Form 10-K of AirGate PCS, Inc. and subsidiaries, and to the
reference to our firm under the heading "Experts" in the prospectus.

                                          /S/ KPMG LLP

Atlanta, Georgia
November 13, 2001


