Docket UT-971119 Page 1



BEFORE THE WASHINGTON UTILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION


                                                 )  DOCKET  UT-971119
In the Matter of the Application of  )  
Rainier Cable, Inc.,    )  ORDER GRANTING 
for an Order Granting    )  AMENDMENT TO  
Amendment to Registration      )  REGISTRATION APPLICATION  
and Authorizing    )  AND AUTHORIZING THE   
Provision of Interexchange    )  PROVISION OF SWITCHED 
Telecommunications            )  INTEREXCHANGE 
Services     )  TELECOMMUNICATIONS
......................................................................)  
SERVICES



  On July 10, 1997, Rainier Cable, Inc., (Rainier Cable) filed an application 
to amend the company’s registration authority to provide interexchange services 
in Washington.

    Rainier Cable is a Washington corporation, headquartered in Eatonville, 
Washington and is wholly owned by Mashell, Inc.  Rainier Cable is currently 
authorized to offer intrastate intraexchange services within Washington in 
Docket UT-961462.  Rainier Cable plans to offer Washington customers both local 
exchange services and interexchange services, and these services may be 
equipped with various features and functions. 

     
FINDINGS

  THE COMMISSION FINDS:

  1.   Rainier Cable, Inc., is a public service company subject to the 
jurisdiction of this Commission under the provisions of chapter 80.36 RCW.

  2. Rainier Cable, Inc., has provided sufficient information to show that it 
is financially and technically capable to provide the services proposed.  

  3.   It appears, upon investigation, that the request for authority to amend 
the application for registration to provide interexchange telecommunications 
services should be approved.

  4.   In this proceeding, the Commission in no way endorses the financial 
viability of applicant nor the investment quality of any securities it may 
issue.


O R D E R

  THE COMMISSION ORDERS:

  1.  After the effective date of this order and subject to the conditions 
hereof, the application of Rainier Cable, Inc., filed with the Commission 
requesting authority to amend the application for registration to provide 
interexchange telecommunications services is hereby granted. 

  2.  This order shall in no way affect the authority of this Commission over 
rates, service, accounts, valuations, estimates or determination of costs, or 
any matters whatsoever that may come before it, nor shall anything herein be 
construed as an acquiescence in any estimate or determination of costs, or any 
valuation of property claimed or asserted.

  3.  The proposed tariff as filed and amended in Exhibit G, attached to the 
application, is satisfactory.  Prior to supplying service to the public as an 
interexchange carrier, Rainier Cable, Inc., shall file and receive permission 
and approval for an initial tariff with the Commission.  The tariff shall bear 
an effective date not less than 30 days subsequent to the date of receipt by 
the Commission.  Failure to file an initial tariff within 30 days from the 
effective date of this Order and prior to supplying service to the public may 
result in the Commission taking action to cancel, Rainier Cable, Inc.’s, 
registration as a telecommunications company in the state of Washington. 

  4.  Rainier Cable, Inc., shall not collect advanced payments or deposits to 
protect customer monies as stated in WAC 480-121-040.


  DATED at Olympia, Washington, and effective this 14th day of October, 1998.


  WASHINGTON UTILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION





       CAROLE J. WASHBURN, Secretary