Technologie i telekomunikacja · 01/09/1999

FCC Affirms Authority to Settle Rate Benchmarks, Amends Facilities-Based Service Condition

The Federal Communications Commission reaffirmed its authority to establish settlement rate benchmarks and requires U.S. carriers to negotiate settlement rates compliant with those benchmarks, while also modifying the Section 214 condition for facilities-based service to affiliated markets, limiting its application to U.S. affiliates with market power in the destination country, in response to petitions for reconsideration filed in this proceeding.