[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 218 (Friday, November 12, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61664-61665]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-29516]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Antitrust Division
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and
Production Act of 1993--Bell Communications Research, Inc.
Notice is hereby given that, on February 13, 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''), Bell Communications
Research, Inc. (``Bellcore'') has filed written notifications
simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade
Commission disclosing: (1) A change in the ownership of Bellcore, (2)
its present intention to continue to engage jointly, on a contractual
basis, with a variety of other entities, including its former
shareholders, in applied research, new service development, generic
requirements, testing and standards support, and software systems work,
and (3) the nature and objectives of such engagements. The
notifications were filed for the purpose of extending the Act's
provisions limiting the recorvery of antitrust plaintiffs to actual
damages under specified circumstances. Pursuant to Section 6(b) of the
Act, the identities of the parties to various joint research projects
and the general area of planned activities are described below.
Bellcore is a coropation with its principal place of business and
facilities located in the United States. Bellcore's shares were
previously held by Ameritech Services, Inc., Bell Atlantic Newwork
Services, Inc., BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc., Pacific Bell,
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, Telesector Resources, Group, Inc.,
and U S WEST Communications, Inc. All of Bellcore's shares were
acquired on November 14, 1997 by Science Applications International
Corporation, San Diego, CA. Although under new ownership, Bellcore
presently intends to continue to engage jointly, on a contractual
basis, with a variety of other entities, including its former
shareholders, in applied research, new service development, generic
requirements, testing and standards support, and software systems work.
In particular, Bellcore continues to engage in a variety of joint
research and related projects with its former shareholders to enable
these companies and their affiliates to maintain high quality and
technologically up-to-date network capabilities to support their
provision of exchange and exchange access telecommunications services
and such other telecommunications service as these cmpanies authorize
by contract with Bellcore. In doing so, Bellcore seeks to create and
develop innovative and improved technologies, processes, software
systems and service ideas that support its former schareholders and
their affiliates as enablers or providers of telecommunications
services that allow people and their machines to cost-effectively
access information and comumunicate with each other easily, reliably
and securely, anywhere, any time, in any medium or combination of
media. Bellcore's work for its former shareholders and others
encompasses applied research, new service development and related
network planning, engineering, training, innovative development and
production of software systems and associated economic research.
Bellcore's general areas of ongoing and planned activities include
work focused on enterprise efficiency, robust (dependable, flexible,
scure) networks and operations, advanced voice and messaging
capabilities, personal nomadic communications and information access,
public data networking, video dialtone and related services, and
network-related support for new information service capabilities.
Bellcore's technical support includes its undertaking of applied
research in such fields as physical science,
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computer scinece, mathematics and switching and transmission
technologies and includes the creating of experimental prototypes as
needed for experimental demonstration and testing of research results
and technical feasibility. Bellcore then extends its findings of
technological possibilities to new or improved technological
applications in the networks of its former shareholders or their
affiliates, through such activities as the creation and development of
new telecommunications network service concepts and related network
planning, engineering (including development of technical requirements,
testing and support for standards-related activities) and software
development and production.
No other changes have been made in either the membership or planned
activity of the various research projects. Membership in the research
projects remains open, and Bellcore intends to file additional written
notifications disclosing all changes in membership.
On January 7, 1985, Bellcore filed its original notification
purusant 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 January 30, 1985.
The last notification was filed with the Department on August 18,
1993. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to
Section 6(b) of the Act on October 26, 1993 (58 FR. 57622).
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 99-29516 Filed 11-10-99; 8:45 am]
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