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                                Before the
                     Federal Communications Commission
                          Washington, D.C. 20554


In the Matter of                     )
                                     )
PHILIPPINE LONG DISTANCE             )
TELEPHONE COMPANY,                   )
                                     )
     Complainant,                    )
                                     )
          v.                         )          File No. E-95-33
                                     )
USA GLOBAL LINK, INC.,               )
                                     )
     Defendant.                      )


                                  ORDER


   Adopted:  December 19, 1997              Released:  December 22, 1997


By the Chief, Formal Complaints and Investigations Branch, Enforcement Division, Common
Carrier Bureau:

1.    On December 12, 1997, USA Global Link, Inc. (Global Link) filed a Request to
Permit Ex Parte Presentations during the above-captioned complaint proceeding. This proceeding
concerns Global Link's use of the uncompleted call signaling configuration of "call-back" to
offer international long distance service to customers in the Philippines.

2.    Here, Global Link requests that the Commission "modify its ex parte rules by
specifying that the Commission's review of this proceeding will hereafter be conducted in 
accordance with Section 1.1206 of the Commission's rules governing permit-but-disclose
proceedings."  Global Link acknowledges that this proceeding "does not fall within any of the
enumerated proceedings which are either exempt from the Commission's ex parte rules under
Section 1.1204(b), or subject to a permit but disclose regime under Section 1.1206(a)."  As
such, this proceeding is currently restricted.

3.    Global Link argues, however, that the public interest will be served if all parties
potentially affected by the Commission's interpretation of the Call-Back Proceeding are given
an opportunity to present their views to the Commission.  Global Link further argues that
restricted status for review of this proceeding is not appropriate where the case "turns on
important and potentially far-reaching policy questions and implicates international considerations
of comity." Although it is true that the Commission retains discretion to issue public notices
setting forth modified ex parte procedures, we are not satisfied that Global Link has presented
sufficient grounds to show that modification of the Commission's ex parte procedures would
serve the public interest.  We therefore deny Global Link's request.

4.    Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED pursuant to Sections 4(i), 4(j), and 208 of the
Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C.  154(i), 154(j), 208, and the authority
delegated under Sections 0.91, and 0.291 of the Commission's rules, 47 C.F.R.  0.91, 0.291,
that USA Global Link Inc.'s Request to Permit Ex Parte Presentations in the above-captioned
complaint IS DENIED.


FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Kurt A. Schroeder
Chief, Formal Complaints and Investigations Branch
Enforcement Division
Common Carrier Bureau