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                          Before the 
               Federal Communications Commission
                    Washington. D.C.  20554
                                
                                                               
                                                               
In the Matter of                        )
                                   )
Federal-State Joint Board on            )    CC Docket No. 96-45
Universal Service                       )
                                   )
Changes to the Board of            )
Directors of the National Exchange )    CC Docket No. 97-21
Carrier Association, Inc.          )


                              ORDER

Adopted:  August 26, 1997               Released: August 27, 1997

By the Chief, Accounting and Audits Division, Common Carrier Bureau:

     1.   On August 15, 1997, Metrocall, Inc. (Metrocall) submitted a motion for extension
of time to file the Universal Service Worksheet, FCC form 457 (Worksheet).  The deadline for
filing the Worksheet is September 1, 1997.  Metrocall requests an extension until October 1,
1997.  Metrocall requests an extension of time until October 1, 1997 to file the Worksheet
because it claims that, due to numerous acquisitions of other paging companies, it will be unable
to collect and itemize the required data by the Worksheet's filing deadline.

     2.   It is the policy of the Commission that motions for extensions of time shall not be
routinely granted.  All contributing entities must collect and compile new data required by the
Worksheet by the filing deadline.  We find that Metrocall has not raised sufficient justification to
warrant an extension of time.  In order to meet the September 1 filing deadline, the Commission
held that it will allow contributors that cannot derive interstate revenues from their books of
account or cannot derive the line-by-line revenue breakdowns from their books of account to
provide on the Worksheet good faith estimates of these figures.  In addition, the new universal
service support mechanisms will be implemented starting January 1, 1998.  In order to meet the
tight implementation schedule, Worksheets must be filed in a timely manner.

     3.   It is THEREFORE ORDERED, pursuant to section 4(i) of the Communications
Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C.  154(i) and sections 0.91, 0.291, and 1.46(a) of the
Commission's rules, 47 C.F.R.  0.91, 0.291, and 1.46(a), that Metrocall's motion for an
extension of time IS DENIED. 
     


                    FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

     
                    
                    Kenneth P. Moran
                    Chief, Accounting and Audits Division, Common Carrier Bureau