


Exhibit 99.1

NEWS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


                                       Client:  Alamosa PCS Holdings, Inc.

                                     Contacts:  Kendall Cowan, CFO
                                                Alamosa PCS
                                                806-722-1100
                                                kcowan@alamosapcs.com

                                                Ken Dennard, Managing Partner
                                                Easterly Investor Relations
                                                713-529-6600
                                                kdennard@easterly.com


                   ALAMOSA PCS BECOMES LARGEST SPRINT PCS
        NETWORK PARTNER WITH COMPLETION OF THE ROBERTS WIRELESS AND
                     WASHINGTON OREGON WIRELESS MERGERS

LUBBOCK, Texas, Feb. 14 /PRNewswire/ - Alamosa Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq:APCS
- news), The 1999 Sprint PCS Affiliate of the Year, today announced that it
has completed its merger with two Sprint PCS Network Partners, Roberts
Wireless Communications, LLC ("Roberts") and Washington Oregon Wireless,
LLC ("WOW"). The transactions were structured as tax-free mergers that
combined these two valuable Sprint PCS Network Partners with Alamosa PCS
Holdings, Inc. The mergers created a new public holding company, called
Alamosa Holdings, Inc. Alamosa, the nation's largest Sprint PCS Network
Partner, increased its licensed population by 47 percent from 8.5 million
residents to 12.5 million residents. The combined company had 166,127
subscribers made up of 132,940 for Alamosa and 33,187 for Roberts and WOW
as of December 31, 2000.

Roberts' service area, which includes 2.5 million people, is in the
attractive areas surrounding Kansas City, the world headquarters of Sprint
PCS, and St. Louis, including the Interstate 70 corridor connecting the two
cities. Roberts currently covers approximately 1.5 million people. Alamosa
Holdings issued 13.5 million shares and paid approximately $4.0 million in
cash to Roberts' owners and assumed $56.0 million of debt.

WOW's service area, which includes 1.5 million people, includes the
attractive market areas of Ellensburg, Yakima and Kennewick, Washington and
key travel corridors within Washington and Oregon. The WOW network
currently covers approximately 0.8 million people and will eventually cover
more than 1.2 million people by the end of 2001. Alamosa Holdings issued
6.05 million shares and paid approximately $12.5 million in cash to WOW's
owners and assumed $31 million of debt.

Alamosa also closed the $280 million senior secured credit facility led by
Salomon Smith Barney, Toronto Dominion, First Union and the Export
Development Corporation. Proceeds will be used to refinance existing
indebtedness of Alamosa, Roberts and WOW, fund remaining network build and
general corporate purposes. The senior secured facility was successfully
syndicated through 13 participating lenders.

"We are very pleased to have completed the mergers and closed on our new
senior secured credit facility with broad based support," said David E.
Sharbutt, chairman and chief executive officer of Alamosa PCS. "We expect
these transactions to produce significant value for our shareholders as we
expand our market presence with these attractive footprints."

Alamosa PCS Holdings, Inc., The 1999 Sprint PCS Affiliate of the Year, is a
Sprint PCS Network Partner providing Sprint PCS wireless personal
communication services in the southwestern and midwestern United States.
Alamosa PCS has the exclusive right to provide digital wireless personal
communication services under the Sprint PCS brand throughout its designated
territory primarily located in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and
Wisconsin.

Sprint PCS operates the largest 100 percent digital, 100 percent PCS
nationwide wireless network in the United States, already serving the
majority of the nation's metropolitan areas including more than 4,000
cities and communities across the country. Sprint PCS has licensed PCS
coverage of more than 280 million people in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and
the U.S. Virgin Islands. For more information, visit the Sprint PCS web
site at www.sprintpcs.com. Sprint PCS is a wholly-owned tracking group of
Sprint Corporation (NYSE: PCS - news) trading on the NYSE under the symbol
"PCS".

Sprint is a global communications company -- at the forefront of
integrating long-distance, local and wireless communications services, and
a large carrier of Internet traffic. Sprint built and operates the United
States' first nationwide all-digital, fiber-optic network and is a leader
in advanced data communications services. Sprint has $23 billion in annual
revenues and serves more than 20 million business and residential
customers.

Statements contained in this news release that are forward-looking
statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties. Such
forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the "safe-harbor"
provisions of the private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and are
made based on management's current expectations or beliefs as well as
assumptions made by, and information currently available to, management. A
variety of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from
those anticipated in Alamosa's forward-looking statements, including the
following factors: failure to satisfy the conditions to closing the
acquisitions or financings described in the above communication; costs
related to the acquisitions; the risk that the acquisitions will not be
integrated successfully; delays in network construction and launch;
increases in network construction costs; Alamosa's dependence on its
affiliation with Sprint PCS; shifts in populations or network focus;
changes or advances in technology; changes in Sprint's National service
plans or fee structure with us; change in population; increased competition
in our markets; and adverse changes in financial position, condition or
results of operations. For a detailed discussion of these and other
cautionary statements and factors that could cause actual results to differ
from Alamosa's forward-looking statements, please refer to Alamosa's
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, especially in the
"risk factors" sections of Alamosa's Prospectuses filed on February 4,
2000, its Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1999 and in subsequent
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

