Attachment Taino-Carib STA Gran

Taino-Carib STA Gran

DECISION submitted by Federal Communications Commission

STA Grant

2019-02-22

This document pretains to SCL-LIC-20180702-00019 for License on a Submarine Cable Landing filing.

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          APPLICATION FOR EXTENSION OF SPECIAL TEMPORARY AUTHORITY

            On behalf of the licensees of the Taino-Carib submarine cable system,’ SCL-LIC

     199205 12-00012, AT&T Corp. (“AT&T”), pursuant to 47 U.S.C.          §~   34-39, Executive Order

     10,530, and 47 C.F.R.   §   1.767, hereby requests that the Commission further extend the

     previously granted Special Temporary Authority (“STA”) to allow the continued operation of the

     Taino-Carib cable following the expiration of the prior cable landing license while the

     Commission considers the application for a new cable landing license for this cable filed on June

     29, 2018.2

            AT&T acknowledges, on behalf of the licensees, that the grant of this STA will not

     prejudice any action the Commission may take on the application for a new cable landing

     license, and that this STA can be modified or revoked by the Commission upon its own motion

     without a hearing. AT&T also acknowledges on behalf of the licenses that such continued

     operation of the cable would remain subject to the conditions set forth in the cable landing

     license released on July 6, 1992.

       The licensees are: AT&T Corp., MCI International Inc., Prepa Networks, LLC, Primus
     Telecommunications, Inc., Sprint Communications Company L.P., and Telefonica Larga
     Distancia De Puerto Rico. See, FCC Public Notice, FY 2016 Regulatory Fees, Listing of
     Submarine Cable Owners, Sept. 7, 2019, at 9.
     2 See Application For Cable Landing License, File No. SCL-LIC- 20180702-00019, filed June

     29, 2018. See also, The Taino-Carib Cable System, SCL-STA-20l801 19-00001, Jan. 25, 2018
     & SCL-STA-20180629-00017, Aug. 6,2018. The application is currently under review by the
     “Team Telecom” Executive Branch agencies.


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       AT&T submits that the continued operation of the Taino-Carib cable will continue to

serve the public interest for the reasons set forth in the application for STA filed on January 18,

2018 and therefore requests the grant of this request.

                                                  Respectfully submitted,

                                                  AT&T Corp.


Of Counsel:                                       _________________________


                                                   James Talbot
Mark D. Schneider                                  AVP- Senior Legal Counsel
Sidley Austin LLP                                  AT&T Services, Inc. &
1501 K Street, NW                                  Assistant Secretary
Washington, DC 20005                               AT&T Corp.
(202) 736-8058                                     Suite 1000
mschneider@sidley.com                              1120 20th Street, N.W.
                                                   Washington, D.C. 20036
                                                   (202) 457-3048
                                                  jjtalbot@att.com
Dated: January_, 2019


                                        CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

       I hereby certify that the foregoing application was served on the following by first-class

mail on June 29, 2018:

U.S. Coordinator, EB/CIP
U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street, NW
Washington, DC 20520-5818

Office of Chief Counsel/NTIA
U.S. Department of Commerce
14th St., NW and Constitution Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20230

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