text: Verizon  to Buy NextWave Licenses Verizon Wireless announced Friday that it plans to buy airwave licenses from NextWave Telecom Inc. for \$3 billion in cash, giving the cellular phone giant the ability to carry more calls in some of the nation's largest cities.\&lt;FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2"\ color="#666666"&gt;&lt;B&gt;-The Washington Post&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;