[Federal Register: January 28, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 18)]
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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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