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                                                           Before the
               Federal Communications Commission
                    Washington, D.C.  20554


In the Matter of                   )
                              )
Telephone Number Portability       )
                              )
Petition for Extension of the Deployment     )
Schedule for Long-Term Database         )
Methods for Local Number Portability:   )
Phase IV                      )
                              )
Roseville Telephone Company        )         NSD File No. L-98-97
                              )


                              ORDER

     Adopted: September 10, 1998             Released: September 10, 1998

By the Chief, Network Services Division:

     1.   This Order addresses a petition of Roseville Telephone Company (RTC)
requesting an extension of time to implement local number portability (LNP) in the Sacramento,
California Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). 

     2.   In a series of orders, the Common Carrier Bureau (Bureau) granted a number of
petitions for extension of the LNP deployment schedule based on the change of LNP
administrator in the Southeast, Western, and West Coast regions.  In addition, the Bureau granted
several extensions based on certain technical problems.  A  brief discussion of LNP and the
effects occasioned by the change of LNP administrator may be found in the Phase I Extension
Order.
     
     3.   RTC is an incumbent local exchange provider (LEC) providing wireline service in
the Sacramento MSA.  In its petition, RTC requests an extension of nineteen days from
September 30, 1998 to October 19, 1998 to implement LNP in Sacramento.  The purpose of the
delay is to permit RTC to complete inter-carrier LNP testing and to align RTC's implementation
efforts with those of Pacific Bell, the incumbent local exchange carrier (LEC). 
     4.   Under section 1.3 of the Commission's rules, waivers may be granted "if good
cause therefor is shown."  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
concluded that a waiver may be granted if "special circumstances warrant a deviation from the
general rule and such a deviation will serve the public interest."  As we did in the previous LNP
extension orders, we find that special circumstances were created as a result of the change in LNP
administrator that warrant a deviation from the scheduled implementation date for Phase IV. 
Accordingly, we grant RTC an extension until October 19, 1998 to implement LNP in the
Sacramento MSA.  

     5.   IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED, pursuant to sections 1.3 and 52.23(e) of the
Commission's rules, 47 C.F.R.  1.3 and 52.23(e), and by authority delegated in sections 0.91
and 0.291 of the Commission's rules, 47 C.F.R.  0.91 and 0.291, that RTC's Petition for Waiver
is GRANTED, thereby extending the date for RTC's implementation of LNP as described in this
Order.


                         FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
     


                         Geraldine A. Matise
                         Chief, Network Services Division
                         Common Carrier Bureau