STATEMENT OF
COMMISSIONER MIGNON L. CLYBURN
Re: Section 43.62 Reporting Requirements for U.S. Providers of International Services, IB 
Docket No. 17-55; 2016 Biennial Review of Telecommunications Regulations, IB Docket 
No. 16-131, Report and Order.
With this Report and Order, the Commission takes another critical step in ensuring that 
our reporting requirements better reflect the current state of the international telecommunications 
market.  The increasing demand for wired and wireless services includes both international and 
domestic communications and the American consumer expects the same degree of diversity when 
it comes to communications options when they contact family, friends, and colleagues in Africa 
or Asia, as they have here at home.  
This demand for choice when it comes to platforms, networks and service providers, 
creates incredible challenges for communications companies, large and small.  To effectively 
compete, they must manage costs and invest in infrastructure to meet increased demands on their 
networks as they realign their business models in order to bring more innovation to the market.  
The Commission plays a key role in this by fostering innovation and removing 
unnecessary regulation and filing requirements when it’s warranted.  By eliminating the traffic 
and revenue report and streamlining the circuit capacity reporting requirement, this Order enables 
companies to spend less time and money dealing with obsolete or overly burdensome 
requirements and devote more resources towards bringing higher quality international 
communications services to consumers.  
I commend Tom Sullivan for his leadership and the International Bureau staff for their 
hard work throughout these Part 43 reform proceedings.  I support the item.