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                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549



                                    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): April 7, 2003


                                AirGate PCS, Inc.

             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)


            Delaware                    027455                   58-2422929
            --------                    ------                   ----------
       (State or other           (Commission File No.)        (I.R.S. Employer
Jurisdiction of Incorporation)                               Identification No.)

            233 Peachtree Street, N.E.                         30303
             Harris Tower, Suite 1700,                       (Zip Code)
                  Atlanta, Georgia
      (Address of principal executive offices)




       Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (404) 525-7272



                                 Not Applicable

          (Former name or former address, if changed since last report)


<PAGE>


Item 9.           Regulation FD Disclosure.


     On April 7, 2003,  AirGate PCS, Inc., a Delaware  corporation  ("AirGate"),
issued a press release announcing that a Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Panel has
determined  that the Company  does not satisfy the  requirements  for  continued
listing on the Nasdaq National Market.

     Accordingly,  Nasdaq has determined to delist the Company's securities from
the Nasdaq National Market  effective at the open of business April 8, 2003. The
Company  expects its common stock will trade on the OTC Bulletin Board under the
same symbol "PCSA" following its delisting from Nasdaq.

     A copy of the press release  referenced above is attached hereto as Exhibit
99.1.



Item 7.           Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(c) Exhibits.

       Exhibit No.     Description

       99.1            Press Release of AirGate PCS, Inc. dated April 7, 2003


<PAGE>



                                                                   SIGNATURES

                  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.



                                  AIRGATE PCS, INC.


Date: April 9, 2003
                                  By:    /s/ William H. Seippel
                                  -----------------------------------------
                                        William H. Seippel
                                        Chief Financial Officer







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<TEXT>
[GRAPHIC OMITTED]                                                  Exhibit 99.1

Contact: Will Seippel
Chief Financial Officer
404-525-7272


             AIRGATE PCS, INC. RECEIVES DELISTING notice FROM NASDAQ
                         ----------------------------------
            COMPANY'S COMMON STOCK TO BE TRADED ON OTC BULLETIN BOARD

ATLANTA (April 7, 2003) - AirGate PCS, Inc.  (NASDAQ/NM:  PCSA), a PCS affiliate
of  Sprint,  today  announced  that a Nasdaq  Listing  Qualifications  Panel has
determined  that the Company  does not satisfy the  requirements  for  continued
listing on the Nasdaq National Market. As previously announced,  the Company was
notified  by Nasdaq on  January  28,  2003 of the  Company's  failure  to regain
compliance with the minimum $1.00 bid price per share  requirement  contained in
Marketplace Rule 4450(a)(5) and its  noncompliance  with the minimum $10 million
stockholders' equity requirement contained in Marketplace Rule 4450(a)(3), under
Maintenance Standard 1, and the market value of publicly held shares and minimum
bid  requirement  contained  in  Marketplace  Rule  4450(b)(3)  and  (4),  under
Maintenance Standard 2, for continued listing on The Nasdaq National Market.

Accordingly,  Nasdaq has determined to delist the Company's  securities from the
Nasdaq  National  Market  effective at the open of business  tomorrow,  April 8,
2003. The Company  expects its common stock will trade on the OTC Bulletin Board
under the same symbol "PCSA" following its delisting from Nasdaq.

Commenting  on the  announcement,  Thomas  M.  Dougherty,  president  and  chief
executive  officer of AirGate PCS,  said,  "Obviously we are  disappointed  with
Nasdaq's decision. Daily closing price quotations on AirGate PCS' shares will be
available to investors through brokerage  terminals,  most popular Web sites and
the OTC Bulletin Board site,  www.otcbb.com.  More  importantly,  we continue to
focus on the  execution  of our  business  plan with the  primary  objective  of
improving our operations and enhancing long-term shareholder value."

About AirGate PCS

AirGate PCS,  Inc.,  excluding  its  unrestricted  subsidiary  iPCS,  is the PCS
Affiliate  of  Sprint  with  the  exclusive  right  to  sell  wireless  mobility
communications   network  products  and  services  under  the  Sprint  brand  in
territories  within three states located in the Southeastern  United States. The
territories   include  over  7.1  million  residents  in  key  markets  such  as
Charleston,  Columbia, and  Greenville-Spartanburg,  South Carolina; and Augusta
and Savannah, Georgia.

iPCS, Inc., a wholly owned unrestricted  subsidiary of AirGate PCS, Inc., is the
PCS  Affiliate  of Sprint with the  exclusive  right to sell  wireless  mobility
communications  network  products  and  services  under the  Sprint  brand in 37
markets in  Illinois,  Michigan,  Iowa and  eastern  Nebraska.  The  territories
include  over  7.4  million  residents  in key  markets  such as  Grand  Rapids,
Michigan;  Champaign-Urbana and Springfield, Illinois; and the Quad Cities areas
of Illinois and Iowa.

AirGate  and iPCS  are  separate  corporate  entities  that  have  discrete  and
independent  financing sources,  debt obligations and sources of revenue.  As an
unrestricted subsidiary, iPCS's lenders, noteholders and creditors do not have a
lien or  encumbrance on assets of AirGate.  Further,  AirGate  generally  cannot
provide capital or other financial  support to iPCS. iPCS has filed a Chapter 11
petition  under the  federal  bankruptcy  laws for the  purpose of  effecting  a
court-ordered reorganization.

About Sprint

Sprint  operates  the  largest,  100-percent  digital,  nationwide  PCS wireless
network  in the  United  States,  already  serving  more than  4,000  cities and
communities  across the  country.  Sprint has licensed PCS coverage of more than
280 million people in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In
August 2002,  Sprint became the first wireless  carrier in the country to launch
next  generation  services  nationwide  delivering  faster  speeds and  advanced
applications  on  Vision-enabled  Phones and devices.  For more  information  on
products and services, visit  www.sprint.com/mr.  PCS is a wholly-owned tracking
stock of Sprint  Corporation  trading on the NYSE under the symbol "PCS." Sprint
is a global communications company with approximately 72,000 employees worldwide
and  nearly  $27  billion  in  annual  revenues  and is  widely  recognized  for
developing, engineering and deploying state-of-the art network technologies.


<PAGE>


Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995

This news release contains forward-looking  statements that are based on current
expectations,  estimates,  forecasts and  projections  about AirGate,  iPCS, the
wireless industry, our beliefs and our management's  assumptions.  Words such as
"expects,"  "anticipates,"  "targets," "goals," "projects,"  "intends," "plans,"
"believes,"  "seeks,"  "estimates"  and  variations  of such  words and  similar
expressions  are intended to identify  such  forward-looking  statements.  These
statements are not guarantees of future  performance  and involve certain risks,
uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict.  Therefore,  actual
outcomes and results may differ materially from what is expressed or forecast in
such  forward-looking  statements.  Factors that could cause  actual  results to
differ include: the liquidity and potential restructuring of iPCS, including the
potential  loss of all  value in the iPCS  common  stock  held by  AirGate;  the
unsettled  nature of the wireless  market;  the  potential  need for  additional
sources of liquidity;  the current economic slowdown;  the potential to continue
to experience a high rate of customer  turnover;  our ability to predict  future
customer growth, as well as other key operating metrics; the competitiveness and
impact of Sprint wireless pricing plans,  products and services;  the ability to
successfully  launch and  leverage 3G products  and  services;  customer  credit
quality; our ability to retain customers;  the ability of Sprint to provide back
office,  customer care and other services;  the prices charged by Sprint for its
services;  consumer  purchasing  patterns;  potential  fluctuations in quarterly
results;  an  adequate  supply of  subscriber  equipment;  risks  related to our
ability to compete with larger, more established businesses; rapid technological
and market  change;  risks  related to future  growth  and  expansion;  rates of
penetration  in the  wireless  industry;  impacts  of  spending  cuts on network
quality, customer retention and customer growth;  anticipated future losses; the
significant  level of indebtedness of each of AirGate and iPCS;  adequacy of bad
debt and other reserves;  and the liquidity and volatility of AirGate PCS' stock
price.

For a detailed  discussion of these and other cautionary  statements and factors
that could  cause  actual  results to differ from those  contained  in this news
release,  please refer to AirGate PCS' filings with the  Securities and Exchange
Commission  ("SEC"),  especially in the "risk  factors"  section of AirGate PCS'
Form 10-K for the fiscal  year ended  September  30,  2002 and Form 10-Q for the
quarter ended December 31, 2002, and in subsequent  filings with the SEC. Except
as  otherwise   required  under  federal  securities  laws  and  the  rules  and
regulations  of the SEC, we do not have any intention or obligation to update or
revise any forward-looking  statements,  whether as a result of new information,
future events, changes in assumptions or otherwise.

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