Public Notice SCL00118

Action Taken Public Notice

Submarine Cable Landing

2011-05-20

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Filings Included

File Number	Service
SCL-LIC-20110329-00009	Submarine Cable Landing

IBFS_PN_889891

SCL-LIC-20110329-00009 E AT&T CORP
Submarine Cable Landing License
Grant of Authority Date of Action: 05/19/2011

Acceptability for Filing Public Notice: The Application was placed on Public Notice on April 14, 2011. See AT&T Corp., Application for a
License to Construct, Land and Operate a Non-Common Carrier Fiber-Optic Submarine Cable System, the GOKI Cable Network, directly linking
Tumon Bay, Guam, Okinawa, Japan, and Kyushu, Japan, File No. SCL-LIC-20110329-00009, Streamlined Submarine Cable Landing License
Applications Accepted for Filing, Report No. SCL-00116S (Int'l Bur., rel. April 14, 2011). No comments or oppositions were filed in response to
the Public Notice.

Coordination with the Department of State and other Executive Branch agencies has been accomplished pursuant to section 1.767(b) of the
Commission's rules, 47 C.F.R. § 1.767(b), and procedures established with the State Department. See Review of Commission Consideration of
Applications under the Cable Landing License Act, IB Docket No. 00-106, Report and Order, 16 FCC Rcd 22167 (2001) (Submarine Cable
Landing License Report and Order); Streamlined Procedures for Executive Branch Review of Submarine Cable Landing License Requests, Media
Note (Revised) (rel. Dec. 20, 2001) available at http://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2001/6951.htm

Action Taken: Grant of the Cable Landing License to AT&T Corp. ("ATTC") for the purpose of landing and operating a non-common carrier
fiber-optic submarine cable system, the GOKI Cable Network, directly linking Tumon Bay, Guam, Okinawa, Japan, and Kyushu, Japan.

Licensee Information: ATTC, a New York corporation, is a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of AT&T Inc., a telecommunications holding
company incorporated under the laws of Delaware. AT&T Inc. is a publicly traded corporation whose stock is widely held and no person or
entity holds a ten percent or greater ownership interest in AT&T Inc.

Cable Design and Capacity: The proposed GOKI Cable Network will be a non-common carrier fiber-optic submarine cable system directly
linking Tumon Bay, Guam, Okinawa, Japan, and Kyushu, Japan. From Guam, the GOKI Cable Network will interconnect with other cable
systems providing direct access to the U.S. mainland.

The GOKI Cable Network will be a high-capacity digital fiber-optic system with a design capacity of 40 Gigabits per second (Gbps) per fiber pair
on two fiber pairs, which equates to four, 10 Gbps wavelengths of traffic per fiber pair. The system will provide an initial capacity of 20 Gbps,
which equates to an initial configuration of two, 10 Gbps wavelengths of traffic per fiber pair. The GOKI Cable Network will re-use some of the
facilities of the former TPC-5 cable system, which was retired from service on June 30, 2010. In the future the cable may be extended to Incheon,
Korea.

Ownership of the Cable System and Landing Points: ATTC will own and operate all portions of the cable system linking Guam with Japan.
ATTC will also own and operate the existing cable station in Tumon Bay, Guam. In Japan, the landing points will be an existing cable station in
Okinawa, Japan, which is owned and operated by KDDI Corporation, and a new cable station in Kyushu, Japan, which will also be owned and
operated by KDDI.

Regulatory Status of Cable: ATTC proposes to operate the cable system on a non-common carrier basis. ATTC states that the Asia-Pacific
region is presently served by many other cable systems, so there are numerous alternative facilities in the region. ATTC further states that it will
not offer capacity to the public indifferently, but rather the available capacity will be used by ATTC and offered to other carriers on terms tailored
to their particular needs.

Applicants have provided information and demonstrated that the proposed operation of the cable on a non-common carrier basis satisfies the
requirements set forth in National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners v. FCC, 525 F.2d 630, 642 (D.C. Cir 1976) (NARUC I), cert.
denied, 425 U.S. 992 (1976). See also Submarine Cable Landing License Report and Order, 16 FCC Rcd at 22202-22203, paras. 69-70; Review
of Commission Consideration of Applications under the Cable Landing License Act, IB Docket No. 00-106, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 15
FCC Rcd 20789, 20815-20818, paras. 62-67.

Conditions and Requirements: ATTC shall comply with the routine conditions set out in section 1.767(g)(1)-(14) of the Commission's rules, 47
C.F.R. § 1.767(g)(1)-(14).

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