# International Settlement Rates, Report and Order on Reconsideration and Order Lifting Stay
> **Federal Communications Commission** · Final rule; reconsideration. · Published 1999-09-01 · Effective 1999-10-01 · 64 FR 47699
## Document
- **Document number:** 99-22722
- **Category:** telecom-common-carrier
- **Federal Register citation:** 64 FR 47699
- **CFR reference:** 47 CFR 63
- **Publication date:** 1999-09-01
- **Effective date:** 1999-10-01
- **FCC docket:** IB Docket No. 96-261
## Abstract

This document affirms a previous finding that the Commission has authority under the Communications Act to establish settlement rate benchmarks and to require U.S. carriers to negotiate settlement rates that comply with those benchmarks. In addition, the Commission amended the Section 214 condition for facilities-based service to affiliated markets, so that it applies only to U.S. affiliates of carriers that have market power in the destination country. The Commission took this action in response to petitions for reconsideration filed in this proceeding.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1999/09/01/99-22722/international-settlement-rates-report-and-order-on-reconsideration-and-order-lifting-stay)
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