EXHIBIT 99.1

               REPORT OF ERNST & YOUNG LLP, INDEPENDENT AUDITORS
                        ON FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULE

   We have audited the consolidated financial statements of Metawave
Communications Corporation as of December 31, 1999 and 1998, and the related
consolidated statements of operations, shareholders' deficit, and cash flows
for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 1999 and have
issued our report dated February 11, 2000, (included elsewhere in this
Registration Statement). Our audits also included the financial statement
schedule listed in Item 16(b) of this Registration Statement. This schedule is
the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to
express an opinion based on our audits.

   In our opinion, the consolidated financial statement schedule referred to
above, when considered in relation to the basic consolidated financial
statements taken as a whole, presents fairly in all material respects the
information set forth therein.

                                          ERNST & YOUNG LLP

Seattle, Washington
February 16, 2000