[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 110 (Thursday, June 10, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30981-30982]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-12180]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Utility Broadband Alliance

    Notice is hereby given that, on May 4, 2021, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Utility Broadband Alliance 
(``UBBA'') has filed written notifications simultaneously with the 
Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) the 
identities of the parties to the venture 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 
to the venture are: 4RF USA, Denver, CO; ADB Companies, Pacific, MO; 
Aetheros Inc., San Francisco, CA; Alpha Wireless, County Laois, 
IRELAND; Amdocs

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Management Ltd, London, UNITED KINGDOM; Ameren Services, St. Louis, MO; 
Anterix, Woodland Park, NJ; ATT Business, Dallas, TX; BEC Technologies, 
Richardson, TX; Blinq Network, Markham, CANADA; Bridgewater Group 
Consulting, Irvine, CA; Burns and McDonnell, Kansas City, MO; Cisco, 
San Jose, CA; Council Rock, Rochester, NY; CrescoNet, San Francisco, 
CA; Encore Networks, Chantilly, VA; Ericsson, Plano, TX; Evergy, Kansas 
City, MO; GE Industrial Communications, Rochester, NY; Hitachi-ABB, 
Raleigh, NC; JEA, Jacksonville, FL; K and A Engineering, White Plains, 
NY; L3 Harris, Rochester, NY; Mimomax Wireless, Christchurch, NEW 
ZEALAND; Motorola Solutions, Chicago, IL; Multi Tech Systems, Mounds 
View, MN; Nokia, Coppell, TX; NovaTech, Lenexa, KS; National Rural 
Telecommunications Cooperative, Herndon, VA; NY Power Authority (NYPA), 
White Plains, NY; Palmetto Technology Associates, Kiawah Island, SC; 
Puloli, Inc., San Francisco, CA; Southern California Edison, Rosemead, 
CA; SouthernLinc, Atlanta, GA; Telit Wireless Solutions, Durham, NC; 
World Wide Technology, Maryland Heights, MO; and Xcel Energy, 
Minneapolis, MN.
    UBBA was formed as a Delaware non-stock member corporation. The 
general area of UBBA's planned activity is to empower utilities and 
ecosystem partners to champion the development of utility broad-band 
networks as a key enabler of the utility of the future, and to 
undertake such other activities as may from time to time be appropriate 
to further the purposes and achieve the goals set forth above.
    Membership in UBBA remains open and UBBA intends to file additional 
written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.

Suzanne Morris,
Chief, Premerger and Division Statistics, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2021-12180 Filed 6-9-21; 8:45 am]
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