94-5592. Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993MCI Telecommunications Corporation

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
 

Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--MCI Telecommunications Corporation

    Notice is hereby given that, on January 24, 1994, pursuant to 
section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), MCI Telecommunications 
Corporation (``MCI'') has filed written notifications on behalf of MCI 
and Ericsson GE Mobile Communications, Inc. (``Ericsson'') 
simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade 
Commission disclosing (1) the identities of the parties and (2) the 
nature and objectives of the venture. The notifications were filed for 
the purpose of invoking the Act's provisions limiting the recovery of 
antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages under specified circumstances. 
Pursuant to section 6(b) of the Act, the identities of the parties are 
MCI, Washington, D.C.; and Ericsson, Research Triangle Park, NC. This 
venture was created to investigate deployment strategies for personal 
communications services (PCS) in the United States initially utilizing 
the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) platform structure 
and open architecture, to develop widely-available specifications for 
PCS network equipment and to identify changes necessary to adapt 
existing GSM platform to the U.S. marketplace.
Joseph H. Widmar,
Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 94-5592 Filed 3-9-94; 8:45 am]
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