Sec. 63.17  Special provisions for U.S. international common carriers.

    (a) Unless otherwise prohibited by the terms of its Section 214 
certificate, a U.S. common carrier authorized under this part to provide 
international private line service, whether as a reseller or facilities-
based carrier, may interconnect its authorized private lines to the 
public switched network on behalf of an end user customer for the end 
user customer's own use.
    (b) Except as provided in paragraph (b)(5) of this section, a U.S. 
common carrier, whether a reseller or facilities-based, may engage in 
``switched hubbing'' to countries not found to offer equivalent resale 
opportunities under Sec. 63.18(e) (3) and (4) under the following 
conditions:
    (1) U.S.-outbound switched traffic shall be routed over the 
carrier's authorized U.S. international private lines to an equivalent 
country, and then forwarded to a third, nonequivalent country only by 
taking at published rates and reselling the International Message 
Telephone Service (IMTS) of a carrier in the equivalent country;
    (2) U.S.-inbound switched traffic shall be carried to an equivalent 
country as part of the IMTS traffic flow from a non-equivalent third 
country and then terminated in the United States over U.S. international 
private lines from the equivalent hub country;
    (3) U.S. common carriers that route U.S.-outbound traffic via 
switched hubbing through an equivalent country shall tariff their 
service on a ``through'' basis from the United States to the ultimate 
foreign destination.
    (4) No U.S. common carrier may engage in switched hubbing under this 
section to a country where it has an affiliation with a foreign carrier 
unless and until it receives specific authority to do so under 
Sec. 63.18. For purposes of this paragraph, ``affiliation'' and 
``foreign carrier'' are defined in Sec. 63.18(h)(1) (i)(B) and (ii), 
respectively.

[ 60 FR 67339 , Dec. 29, 1995, as amended at  61 FR 15728 , Apr. 9, 1996]