[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 55 (Tuesday, March 21, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 15177]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-6956]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993; Telemanagement Forum

    Notice is hereby given that, on June 8, 1999, pursuant to section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Telemanagement Form 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, Citizens 
Communications, Dallas, TX; Bea Systems, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA; Telstra 
Corporation, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA; Telecordia Technologies, Red Bank, 
NJ; and Metamor Industry Solutions, Birmingham, AL have been added as 
Corporate Members. ETIS, Brussels, BELGIUM has been added as an 
Affiliate Member. Level (3) Communications, Westminster, CO; Raychem 
Corp., Menlo Park, CA; Telecommunications Management Network de Mexico, 
Mexico City, MEXICO; Object-Mart, Inc., San Jose, CA; Pathnet, 
Washington, DC; ITS., Inc., Piscataway, NJ; Teledesic LLC, Kirland, WA; 
Accunet Ltd., Newbury, Berkshire, ENGLAND; Telekom Applied Business SDN 
BHD, Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA; Commtech Corp., Cranbury, NJ; Streamsoft, 
Inc., Fremont, CA; Hitachi Telecom (USA); Inc., Norcross, GA; ISR 
Global Telecom, Orlando, FL; Protek, Kokstad, Bergen, NORWAY; SITA, 
Neuilly-sur-Seine, FRANCE; and Fore Systems, Dublin, IRELAND have been 
added as Associate Members. Also, Hitachi Telecom (USA), Inc., 
Norcross, GA; ISR Global Telecom, Orlando, FL; ETIS, Brussels, BElGIUM; 
Bellcore, Red Bank, NJ; and Technology and Process Consulting, Inc., 
Birmingham, AL have been dropped as Corporate Members. SITA, Neuilly-
sur-Seine, FRANCE has been dropped as an Affiliate Member. Bea Systems, 
Inc., Sunnyvale, CA; Telstra Corp., Melbourne, AUSTRALIA; Nera AS, 
Kokstad, Bergen, NORWAY; and Euristix Ltd, Dublin, IRELAND have been 
dropped as Associate Members.
    Nera AS is no Protek; Sita/Equant is now Sita; Bellcore is now 
Telcordia Technologies; Euristix is now Fore Systems; and Technology 
Process and Consulting, Inc. is now Metamor Industry Solutions.
    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 Telemanagement Forum intends to file 
additional written notification disclosing all changes in membership.
    On October 21, 1988, Telemanagement Forum 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 December 8, 1988 (53 FR 49615).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on February 19, 
1999. A notice has not yet been published in the Federal Register.

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 00-6956 Filed 3-20-00; 8:45 am]
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