FCC 43.61 Revised as of October 1, 2007
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Sec. 43.61 Reports of international telecommunications traffic.
(a) Each common carrier engaged in providing international
telecommunications service between the area comprising the continental
United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and off-shore U.S. points and any country or
point outside that area shall file a report with the Commission not later
than July 31 of each year for service actually provided in the preceding
calendar year.
(1) The information contained in the reports shall include actual traffic
and revenue data for each and every service provided by a common carrier,
divided among service billed in the United States, service billed outside
the United States, and service transiting the United States.
(2) Each common carrier shall submit a revised report by October 31
identifying and correcting any inaccuracies included in the annual report
exceeding five percent of the reported figure.
(3) The information required under this section shall be furnished in
conformance with the instructions and reporting requirements prepared under
the direction of the Chief, Wireline Competition Bureau, prepared and
published as a manual, in consultation and coordination with the Chief,
International Bureau.
(b) Quarterly Traffic Reports . (1) Each common carrier engaged in providing
international telecommunicaitons service between the area comprising the
continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and off-shore U.S. points and any
country or point outside that area shall file with the Commission, in
addition to the report required by paragraph (a) of this section, actual
traffic and revenue data for each calendar quarter in which the carrier's
quarterly minutes exceed the corresponding minutes for all carriers by one
or more of the following tests:
(i) The carrier's aggregate minutes of facilities-based or facilities resale
switched telephone traffic for service billed in the United States are
greater than 1.0 percent of the total of such minutes of international
traffic for all U.S. carriers published in the Commission's most recent
Sec. 43.61 annual report of international telecommunications traffic;
(ii) The carrier's aggragate minutes of facilities-based or facilities
resale switched telephone traffic for service billed outside the United
States are greater than 1.0 percent of the total of such minutes of
international traffic for all U.S. carriers published in the Commission's
most recent Sec. 43.61 annual report of international telecommunications
traffic;
(iii) The carrier's aggregate minutes of facilities-based or facilities
switched telephone traffic for service billed in the United States for any
foreign country are greater than 2.5 percent of the total of such minutes of
international traffic for that country for all U.S. carriers published in
the Commission's most recent Sec. 43.61 annual report of international
telecommunications traffic; or
(iv) The carrier's aggregate minutes of facilities-based or facilities
resale switched telephone traffic for service billed outside the United
States for any foreign country are greater than 2.5 percent of the total of
such minutes of international traffic for that country for all U.S. carriers
published in the Commission's most recent Sec. 43.61 annual report of
international telecommunications traffic.
(2) Except as provided in this paragraph, the quarterly reports required by
paragraph (b)(1) of this section shall be filed in the same format as, and
in conformance with, the filing procedures for the annual reports required
by paragraph (a) of this section.
(i) Carriers filing quarterly reports shall include in those reports only
their provision of switched, facilities-based telephone service and
switched, facilities resale telephone service.
(ii) The quarterly reports required by paragraph (b)(1) of this section
shall be filed with the Commission no later than April 30 for the prior
January through March quarter; no later than July 31 for the prior April
through June quarter; no later than October 31 for the prior July through
September quarter; and no later than January 31 for the prior October
through December period.
(c) Each common carrier engaged in the resale of international switched
services that is affiliated with a foreign carrier that has sufficient
market power on the foreign end of an international route to affect
competition adversely in the U.S. market and that collects settlement
payments from U.S. carriers shall file a quarterly version of the report
required in paragraph (a) of this section for its switched resale services
on the dominant route within 90 days from the end of each calendar quarter.
Commercial Mobile Radio Service (CMRS) carriers, as defined in Sec. 20.9 of this
chapter, are not required to file reports pursuant to this paragraph. For
purposes of this paragraph, affiliated and foreign carrier are defined in
Sec. 63.09 of this chapter.
[ 57 FR 8580 , Mar. 11, 1992, as amended at 60 FR 5333 , Jan. 27, 1995; 62 FR 5541 , Feb. 6, 1997; 62 FR 45761 , Aug. 29, 1997; 64 FR 19061 , Apr. 19, 1999;
66 FR 67112 , Dec. 28, 2001; 67 FR 13225 , Mar. 21, 2002; 67 FR 45390 , July 9,
2002]
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