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<P align="right" style="font-size: 10pt">Filed by AirGate PCS, Inc.<BR>
Pursuant to Rule&nbsp;425 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended<BR>
Subject Company: AirGate PCS, Inc.<BR>
Commission File No.&nbsp;027455

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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><B>Contact:</B>
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    <TD align="left" valign="bottom"><B>Bill Loughman<BR>
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404-525-7272</B></TD>
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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">The following press release
was issued by Alamosa Holdings, Inc. and AirGate PCS, Inc. on
February&nbsp;7, 2005:


<P align="center" style="font-size: 14pt"><B>Alamosa and AirGate
Announce
February&nbsp;14</B><SUP style="font-size: 85%; vertical-align: text-top"><B>th</B></SUP>
<B>Election Deadline<BR>
in Connection with Proposed Merger</B>


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>LUBBOCK, Texas and Atlanta, Georgia (February&nbsp;7, 2005) &#150;</B>In connection with the pending merger
between Alamosa Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq/NM: APCS) and AirGate PCS, Inc. (Nasdaq/NM: PCSA), the
companies announced today that AirGate stockholders wishing to make an election to receive the
merger consideration in cash or shares of Alamosa common stock, subject to pro-ration, must deliver
to Mellon Investor Services, the Exchange Agent, properly completed Forms of Election, together
with their stock certificates or properly completed Forms of Notice of Guaranteed Delivery, by 5:00
p.m., New York City time, on February&nbsp;14, 2005, the election deadline.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">AirGate stockholders who do not properly deliver such documentation to Mellon Investor Services (at
the address specified in the Form of Election) prior to the election deadline may not select the
form of merger consideration they would like to receive. The final election results regarding the
merger consideration will be announced as soon as possible after the election deadline. AirGate
stockholders may obtain additional copies of the Form of Election and the Form of Notice of
Guaranteed Delivery by contacting the Exchange Agent at 1-800-777-3674. AirGate stockholders whose
shares are held in their brokers&#146; name should contact their broker for instructions on making an
election with respect to those shares.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>About Alamosa</B><BR>
Alamosa Holdings, Inc. is the largest (based on number of subscribers) wireless Affiliate of Sprint
(NYSE: FON), which operates the largest all-digital, all-CDMA Third-Generation (3G) wireless
network in the United States. Alamosa has the exclusive right to provide digital wireless mobile
communications network services under the Sprint brand name throughout its designated territory
located in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri,
Washington, Oregon, Arkansas, Kansas, Illinois, and California. Alamosa&#146;s territory includes
licensed population of 15.8&nbsp;million residents.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>About AirGate<br></B>
AirGate PCS, Inc. is the PCS Affiliate of Sprint with the 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 7.4&nbsp;million
residents in key markets such as Charleston, Columbia, and Greenville-Spartanburg, South Carolina;
Augusta and Savannah, Georgia; and Asheville, Wilmington and the Outer Banks of North Carolina.



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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">Alamosa and AirGate Announce February&nbsp;14th Election Deadline<BR>
in Connection with Proposed Merger<BR>
Page 2<BR>
February&nbsp;7, 2005

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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>Legal Information</B><br>
On January&nbsp;19, 2005, Alamosa filed a definitive proxy statement/prospectus with the Commission
regarding the proposed merger with AirGate. Stockholders are urged to read the definitive joint
proxy statement/prospectus because it contains important information. Stockholders can obtain a
free copy of the joint proxy statement/prospectus, as well as other filings containing information
about Alamosa and AirGate, without charge, at the Commission&#146;s internet site (http://www.sec.gov).
Copies of the joint proxy statement/prospectus and the filings with the Commission that are
incorporated by reference in the joint proxy statement/prospectus can also be obtained without
charge, by directing a request to Alamosa Holdings, Inc., 5225 S. Loop 289, Lubbock, Texas 79424,
Attention: Jon Drake (806-722-1100); or AirGate PCS, Inc., Harris Tower, 233 Peachtree Street, N.E.
Suite&nbsp;1700, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, Attention: Bill Loughman (404-525-7272).



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