Mr. John C. Rollins is a Network Planning Manager for GTE with 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. For the past year, he has served on a number of state committees and subcommittees (California, Florida, Texas, and Washington) developing plans for the deployment of Local Number Portability. He represents GTE on the USTA Network Planning Subcommittee and is the Chairman of the Bellcore Advanced Voice Services User Group. He also represents GTE on the CO Code Transition Subcommittee (a subcommittee of the North American Numbering Council).