94-6720. 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 Northern Telecom (``Northern Telcom'') 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, DC; and 
Northern Telecom, Richardson, TX. 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. 94-6720 Filed 3-22-94; 8:45 am]
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