FCC International Bureau Releases Filing Manual

The FCC International Bureau released a filing manual aimed at providing instructions for filing annual traffic and revenue and circuit capacity reports. A traffic and revenue report must be filed by any U.S. international authorization holder, “whether or not it provided any International Telecommunications Service during the preceding calendar year,” it said in the filing manual released Friday (http://bit.ly/1tRlwZy). Circuit capacity reports must be filed by any U.S. international carrier that owned or leased bare capacity on a submarine cable between the U.S. and any foreign point on Dec. 31 of the reporting period, it said. There are filing instructions for affiliated corporations and for merged entities. The earliest dates that the FCC will accept filings will be specified annually by the bureau in a public notice, it said.