[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 47, Volume 3]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 47CFR63.22]

[Page 241-242]
 
                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION
 
        CHAPTER I--FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED)
 
Sec.  63.22  Facilities-based international common carriers.

    The following conditions apply to authorized facilities-based 
international carriers:
    (a) A carrier authorized under Sec.  63.18(e)(1) may provide 
international facilities-based services to international points for 
which it qualifies for non-dominant regulation as set forth in Sec.  
63.10, except in the following circumstance: If the carrier is, or is 
affiliated with, a foreign carrier in a destination market and the 
Commission has not determined that the foreign carrier lacks market 
power in the destination market (see Sec.  63.10(a)), the carrier shall 
not provide service on that route unless it has received specific 
authority to do so under Sec.  63.18(e)(3).
    (b) The carrier may provide service using half-circuits on any U.S. 
common carrier and non-common carrier facilities that do not appear on 
an exclusion list published by the Commission. Carriers may also use any 
necessary non-U.S.-licensed facilities, including any submarine cable 
systems, that do not appear on the exclusion list. Carriers may not use 
U.S. earth stations to access non-U.S.-licensed satellite systems unless 
the Commission has specifically approved the use of those satellites and 
so indicates on the exclusion list. The exclusion list is available from 
the International Bureau's World Wide Web site at http://www.fcc.gov/ib.
    (c) Specific authority under Sec.  63.18(e)(3) is required for the 
carrier to

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provide service using any facilities listed on the exclusion list, to 
provide service between the United States and any country on the 
exclusion list, or to construct, acquire, or operate lines in any new 
major common carrier facility project.
    (d) The carrier may provide international basic switched, private 
line, data, television and business services.
    (e)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (e)(2) of this section, the 
carrier may provide switched basic services over its authorized 
facilities-based private lines if and only if the country at the foreign 
end of the private line appears on a Commission list of countries to 
which the Commission has authorized the provision of switched services 
over private lines. See Sec.  63.16. If at any time the Commission 
removes the country from that list or finds that market distortion has 
occurred in the routing of traffic between the United States and that 
country, the carrier shall comply with enforcement actions taken by the 
Commission.
    (2) The carrier may use its authorized facilities-based private 
lines to provide switched basic services in circumstances where the 
carrier is exchanging switched traffic with a foreign carrier that lacks 
market power in the country at the foreign end of the private line.
    (3) A foreign carrier lacks market power for purposes of paragraph 
(e)(2) of this section if it does not appear on the Commission's list of 
foreign carriers that do not qualify for the presumption that they lack 
market power in particular foreign points. This list is available from 
the International Bureau's World Wide Web site at http://www.fcc.gov/ib.
    (f) The carrier shall file annual international circuit status 
reports as required by Sec.  43.82 of this chapter.
    (g) The authority granted under this part is subject to all 
Commission rules and regulations and any conditions or limitations 
stated in the Commission's public notice or order that serves as the 
carrier's Section 214 certificate. See Sec. Sec.  63.12, 63.21 of this 
part.

[64 FR 19065, Apr. 19, 1999, as amended at 64 FR 34741, June 29, 1999; 
67 FR 45391, July 9, 2002]