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


In the Matter of                )
                                 )  IB Docket No. 96-261
   International Settlement Rates  )


       ORDER DENYING MOTION TO ESTABLISH COMMENT SCHEDULE

     Adopted:  July 29, 1997  Released:  July 29, 1997

By the Chief, International Bureau:

      1.In response to our Order Granting Confidential Treatment of call distribution
data filed under seal by AT&T in the above-captioned proceeding, ABS-CBN Telecom, North
America, Inc. ("ABS-CBN Telecom") has filed a motion to establish a comment schedule for
that data.  Finding that ABS-CBN Telecom has not shown good cause for establishing a
comment schedule, we deny its motion.

      2.In its comments, ABS-CBN Telecom had requested that call distribution data be
placed on the record in the above-captioned proceeding.  Although we believed that U.S.
international carriers would likely have call distribution data on their U.S.-originated traffic and
foreign carriers receiving settlement payments would likely have the call distribution data on the
U.S.-originated traffic that they terminate, we welcomed AT&T's filing of such call distribution
data collected on its customers' calls to supplement the record.  Recognizing that "AT&T's call
distribution data could provide competitors with competitively-sensitive market and cost
structure information about AT&T's operations," we allowed AT&T to make the information
available to all parties of record pursuant to a Confidentiality Agreement that AT&T had
attached to its motion.  ABS-CBN Telecom requests that we establish a further comment
schedule in the above-captioned proceeding for comments on the AT&T call distribution data.  

      3.ABS-CBN Telecom believes that we should establish a further comment schedule
in part because of "the expected scope of the new AT&T data, which . . . cover up to ninety days
of telephone call volumes, segmented by calling hour for at least fifty-six countries."  ABS-CBN
Telecom expressed this concern in its motion without taking the opportunity to review first the
information that AT&T has made available.  Because of the confidential treatment granted
AT&T's call distribution data, we are not at liberty to discuss details about that data.  Our review,
though, shows that AT&T's filing does not contain voluminous data -- generally one to five
tables per country.  AT&T has presented the data of the distribution of calls among the relevant
rate bands in a concise, easy-to-understand manner.  As a result, we find that ABS-CBN Telecom
has failed to show good cause for establishing a schedule of August 15, 1997 for initial
comments and August 22, 1997 for reply comments on AT&T's confidential call distribution
data.  Interested parties may file comments on this data until the Sunshine Period in the above-
captioned proceeding begins.

      4.Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED, pursuant to Section 4(i) of the Communications
Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C.  4(i), and Sections 0.51 and 0.261 of the Commission's
rules, 47 C.F.R.  0.51, 0.261, that ABS-CBN Telecom's Motion IS DENIED.

      5.IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that this Order shall be effective upon adoption.



  FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION



  Peter F. Cowhey
  Chief, International Bureau