[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 18 (Thursday, January 28, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 4469]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-2035]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Antitrust Division
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and
Production Act of 1993--The Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line Forum
Notice is hereby given that, on March 20, 1998, pursuant to section
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993,
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), the Asymmetrical Digital
Subscriber Line Forum (``ADSL'') has filed written notifications
simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade
Commission disclosing changes in its membership status. The
notifications were filed for the purpose of extending the Act's
provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to actual
damages under specified circumstances. Specifically, Accelerated
Networks, Westlake Village, CA; Advanced Hardware Architectures,
Pullman, WA; Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale, CA; Aware, Bedford, MA;
Atlas Communication Engines, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA; Bell Canada,
Montreal, Quebec, CANADA; Bellcore, Morristown, NJ; Bosch Telecom,
Backnang, Baden-Wuerttenberg, GERMANY; Broadband Technologies, Research
Triangle Park, NC; Cable & Wireless, London, ENGLAND; CopperCom,
Cupertino, CA; Diamond Multimedia, St. Ingbert, Saarland, GERMANY;
Fluke Corporation, Everett, WA; General Signal Networks, Westford, MA;
Globaloop, Kfar Sava, ISRAEL; FORE Systems, Warrendale, PA; Harris
Corporation, Melbourne, FL; Intel, Santa Clara, CA; Interspeed,
Lawrence, MA; Jetstream, San Jose, CA; MCI Telecommunications,
Richardson, TX; New Information Technologies, Inc. (NITECH), Freehold,
NJ; PMC-Sierra, Burnaby, British Columbia, CANADA; Philips Multimedia &
Network Systems GmbH, Bautzen, GERMANY; Pulse, San Diego, CA; OKI
America, Merrifield, VA; Robertson, Stephens & Co., San Francisco, CA;
RouterWare, Newport Beach, CA; Shasta Networks, Menlo Park, CA; Siecor,
Keller, TX; Sprint, Westwood, KS; Starnet, San Jose, CA; TTC,
Germantown, MD; Tele Danmark, Aarhus, DENMARK; Tollgrade, Cheswick, PA;
Tut Systems, Pleasant Hill, CA; Transwitch, Shelton, CT; and VTT
Electronics, Oulu, FINLAND have been added as parties to this venture.
SMC, Irvine, CA has changed its name to Escalate Networks, Irvine, CA.
SouthWestern Bell, Austin, TX has changed its name to SBC Technology
Resources, Austin, TX. Ericsson Austria AG, Vienna, AUSTRIA has changed
its name to LM Ericsson, Vienna, AUSTRIA.
Amati, San Jose, CA has merged with Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX.
Also, Sourcecom, Santa Clarita, CA; and Interphase, Dallas, TX have
been dropped as parties to this venture.
No other changes have been made in either the membership or planned
activity of the group research project. Membership in this group
research project remains open, and ADSL intends to file additional
written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.
On May 15, 1995, ADSL filed its original notification pursuant to
section 6(a) of the Act. The Department of Justice published a notice
in the Federal Register pursuant to section 6(b) of the Act on July 25,
1995 (60 FR 38058).
The last notification was filed with the Department on December 16,
1997. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to
section 69b) of the Act on April 8, 1998 (63 FR 17214).
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 99-2035 Filed 1-27-99; 8:45 am]
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