Attachment Taino-Carib Section ITC-MOD-20191025-00173

Attachment Taino-Carib Section

This document pretains to ITC-MOD-20191025-00173 for Modification on a International Telecommunications filing.

IBFS_ITCMOD2019102500173_1977749

Before the
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

In the Matter of )
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Telefonica Larga Distancia de Puerto Rico, et ) File No. ITC-214-19920103-00125
al., ) (Old File No. ITC-92-106)
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The Taino-Carib Submarine Cable System )

APPLICATION FOR MODIFICATION OF SECTION 214 AUTHORITY

The Taino Carib Consortium, pursuant to Section 63.18(e)(3) of the Commission’s Rules,

hereby requests the Commission to modify the Section 214 authority previously granted to

construct and operate the Taino Carib Cable System to include Antelecom N.V., Cable and

Wireless (BVI) Limited, and Prepa Networks, LLC as licensees. 1 This application is submitted

in connection with the previously filed cable landing license application to authorize the

continued operation of the Taino Carib Cable System after the existing landing license for the

cable expired on January 1, 2018. 2 Antelecom N.V., Cable and Wireless (BVI) Limited, and

Prepa Networks, LLC are applicants for the renewed cable landing license for Taino Carib.

Antelecom N.V., Cable and Wireless (BVI) Limited, and Prepa Networks, LLC seek Section

63.18(e)(3) authority to own and operate this common carrier facility.

1
The Taino Carib Cable System commenced operation as a common carrier cable on January 1,
1992, pursuant to the cable landing license granted on July 13, 1992 and Section 214
authorization granted on June 25, 1992. See Telefonica Larga Distancia de Puerto Rico, et al., 7
FCC. Rcd. 4275 (1992) (Cable Landing License) & id., 7 FCC Rcd. 4266 (1992) (Section 214
authorization). The cable continues in operation pursuant to Special Temporary Authority. Id.
2
See The Taino Carib Cable System Operating between the Puerto Rico and St. Thomas in the
U.S. Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands, File No. SCL-LIC-2018-0702-00019, filed on
June 29, 2018.

The continued operation of the Taino Carib Cable System will serve customers in the

United States by providing bandwidth capacity for broadband traffic between the Puerto Rico,

the U.S. Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands, with connections to international routes

serving the Caribbean and Central and South America. As stated in the application for the

renewed cable landing license, the continued operation of this cable is overwhelmingly in the

public interest by continuing to help meet the demand for voice, data and Internet traffic, provide

important facilities-based competition, and enhance service quality, increase resiliency, and

decrease latency on the above routes. The same reasons support the grant of this application.

Information requested by 47 C.F.R. § 63.18. The information requested by 47 C.F.R. §

63.18 of the Commission’s rules for each applicant can be found in the attached appendices as

follows:

APPENDIX A: Antelecom N.V.

APPENDIX B: Cable and Wireless (BVI) Limited

APPENDIX C: Prepa Networks, LLC

U.S. Departments of State, Commerce, and Defense. A complete copy of this application

has been sent to the U.S. Departments of State, Commerce, and Defense. Such service is

certified in the certificate of service attached to this application.

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TAB 1

LIST OF PERSONS OR ENTITIES
WITH OWNERSHIP INTERESTS OF 10% OR ABOVE

TAB 2

COUNTRIES WHERE AFFILIATES OF CABLE AND WIRELESS (BVI)
LIMITED PROVIDE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES AND/OR
OPERATE CABLE LANDING STATIONS

Prepa Networks is not a foreign carrier and is not affiliated with any foreign carrier

authorized to provide telecommunications services to the public in any country.

(8) Certification Requested by Section 63.18(j)

Prepa Networks certifies that it does not seek to land or operate a submarine cable

connecting the United States to any country for which any of the statements listed in 47 C.F.R. §

63. l 8(j) (1 )-(4) is true.

(9) Certification requested in Section 63.18(n)

Prepa Networks certifies pursuant to Section 63.18(n), 47 C.F.R. § 63.18(n), that it has

not agreed to accept special concessions directly or indirectly from any foreign carrier with

respect to any U.S. international route where the foreign carrier possesses market power on the

foreign end of the route and will not enter into such agreements in the future.

(10) Certification requested by Section 63.18(o)
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Prepa Networks certifies pursuant to sections 1.2001 through 1.2003 of the

Commission's rules, 47 C.F.R. §§ 1.2001-1.2003, that it is not subject to a denial of Federal

benefits pursuant to Section 5301 of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988.

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