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 STATEMENT  OF  COMMISSIONER  MICHAEL  J.  COPPS 
 RE:  Notice  of  Inquiry  on  the  Effects  of  Foreign  Mobile  Termination  Rates  on  U.  S.  Customers,  IB  Docket  No.  04-  398 
 Increasingly  U.  S.  consumers  are  facing  very  high  and  often  unexpected  charges  when  they  place  international  calls  to  people  using  mobile  phones.  In  some  cases  these 
 rates  appear  to  be  well  above  cost.  So  the  FCC  has  the  responsibility  to  investigate  these  charges  and  to  determine  if  we  should  take  action.  I  hope  that  this  NOI  will  give  us  the 
 data  we  need  to  understand  if  and  how  we  should  respond. 
 I  also  want  to  note  that  a  group  of  our  peer  regulators  have  undertaken  proceedings  to  study  these  rates.  I  hope  that  we  can  benefit  from  the  data  that  they  have 
 collected  and  that  we  will  make  every  effort  to  understand  better  how  their  domestic  mobile  regulatory  systems  would  be  affected  by  our  decisions. 
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