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PUBLIC NOTICE
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                                        Federal Communications Commission
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                                                               DA 99-1655
                                               Released:  August 18, 1999

                 International Settlement Rates
   Report and Order on Reconsideration and Order Lifting Stay
          IB Docket 96-261, FCC 99-124 (June 11, 1999)
       Supplemental Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis

     
     
On August 18, 1997, the Federal Communications Commission released a Report and Order in IB
Docket 96-261 that included a Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis (FRFA).  On June 11, 1999,
the Commission released the Report and Order on Reconsideration and Order Lifting Stay in IB
Docket 96-261.   This public notice makes the Supplemental FRFA for the Report and Order on
Reconsideration and Order Lifting Stay available to the public, as required by the Regulatory
Flexibility Act (RFA).   This Supplemental FRFA incorporates by reference the FRFA contained
in the Report and Order. The Report and Order on Reconsideration and Order Lifting Stay
reaffirmed the Commission's Report and Order adopting changes in the benchmark settlement
rates for international message telephone service between U.S. facilities-based carriers and foreign
carriers and related issues. The Report and Order on Reconsideration and Order Lifting Stay
further streamlined the application of  a rule pertaining to the condition for facilities-based service
to affiliated markets so that it only applies to U.S. affiliates of carriers that have market power in
the destination market.  

Action by the Chief, International Carrier Bureau.

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