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News Briefs from June 16-30, 2000

6/30. FCC Chairman Wm. Kennard said that he will propose that the FCC begin a formal proceeding on the issue of mandating open access to broadband cable Internet access facilities. See, FCC release. Last week, in the U.S. Court of Appeals (9th Circuit) issued its opinion in AT&T v. Portand which stated that the FCC has authority to regulate broadband cable Internet access as a "telecommunications service".
6/30. The FCC approved SBC's § 271  application to provide long distance service in Texas. See, FCC release and Kennard statement. See also, SBC release. This is only the second § 271 application that the FCC has approved. In December 1999, the FCC approved Bell Atlantic's long distance application for New York. [FCC CC Docket No. 00-65.]
6/30. FCC Commissioner Furchtgott-Roth wrote a concurring statement in the SBC Texas matter. He argued that "the relationship between the regulatory approval process under section 271 and the procedures regarding private interconnection agreements established by sections 251 and 252 is a critical one. Unfortunately, the Commission has not paid close attention to this relationship, and its failure to do so has caused the section 271 review process to morph into something quite different from the original statutory plan. The process has turned into a general federal regulatory scheme, instead of tracking the contract-based, State-centric model of sections 251, 252, and 271."
6/30. Bill Clinton signed S 761, the electronic signatures bill. See, Clinton statement. See also, Tech Law Journal story.
6/30. The FTC completed a two day workshop on extending antitrust regulation to business to business (B2B) electronic marketplaces. See, FTC's B2B web page.
6/30. Sony Corp. refiled its patent infringement suit against Connectrix. The original complaint was filed on Feb. 14, and dismissed by Sony for procedural reasons on June 29. Sony alleges that Connectrix's Game Player violates Sony's PlayStation patents. See Connectrix release.
6/30. Bell Atlantic and GTE completed their merger. The new company is named Verizon Communications. [NYSE: VZ.] The FCC approved the merger on June 16.
6/29. The SEC filed suit in U.S. District Court in San Jose, CA against Hybrid Networks, Inc., a San Jose-based manufacturer of cable and wireless Internet access systems, for issuing false financial statements in connection with its November 1997 IPO. See, SEC release.
6/29. Bill Clinton announced that he will nominate Norman Mineta to be Secretary of Commerce. Sec. Wm. Daley is stepping down to run Al Gore's presidential campaign. Mineta is a former Mayor of San Jose, California, and a former Member of Congress. Mineta stated at an announcement ceremony that "the Clinton-Gore administration has led the new economy to sweep our great nation." See, DOC release.
6/29. The House Government Reform Committee approved HR 4049, a bill to establish a commission to study privacy protection, sponsored by Rep. Asa Hutchinson (R-AK) and Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA). See, Hutchinson release.
6/29. The House Banking Committee marked up HR 4585, the Medical Financial Privacy Protection Act. See, statement of Rep. Jim Leach (R-IA).
6/29. The House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law held a hearing on three bills: HR 4267, the Internet Tax Reform and Reduction Act, HR 4460, the Internet Tax Simplification Act, and HR 4462, the Fair and Equitable Interstate Tax Compact Simplification Act. See, prepared statements of Rep. George Gekas (R-PA), Ray Haynes (Calif. Senate), Stephen Saland (NY Senate), Michael Southcombe (Idaho Tax Comm.), Gary Viken (South Dakota), Rodney Strain (Louisiana), Tom Stemberg (Staples Inc.), Gary Rappaport, Robert Benham, Katrina Doerfler (Cisco), David Friedensohn, Frank Julian, Peter Lowy, Arthur Rosen, Mark Nebergall, Larry Good, Scott Walters, and James Hunt (Ernst & Young).
6/29. The House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property held an oversight hearing titled "The Internet and Federal Courts: Issues and Obstacles." The subcommittee heard testimony regarding cyber-jurisdiction and other issues. No legislation is pending on this topic. See, statements of Rep. Howard Coble (R-NC), Andrew Pincus (Commerce Dept.), Jean Veta (DOJ), Jeffery Kovar (State Dept.), Thomas Vartanian (ABA), Mark Thurmon (AIPLA), Henry Perritt (Chicago-Kent College of Law), Dan Burk (Minn. Law School), Jonathan Zittrain (Harvard Law School), Marc Pearl (ITAA), Robert Holleyman (BSA).
6/29. The FTC filed administrative complaints, and reached consent agreements, with BUY.COM, Value America, and Office Depot on charges they engaged in deceptive practices in advertising "free" and "low cost" computers. The FTC alleged that their ads, which included rebates conditioned on the purchase of 3 years of Internet service, failed to disclose the costs and restrictions. The FTC further alleged that this constituted unfair or deceptive trade practices in violation of § 5(a) of the Federal Trade Commission Act. See, FTC release. See also, PDF documents:
 • BUY.COM Complaint & Agreement.
 • Value America Complaint & Agreement.
 • Office Depot Complaint & Agreement
6/28. The Intellectual Property Organization (IPO) Board of Directors adopted a statement on business method patents. It concludes that the "IPO does not believe that Congress should legislate in the area of business method patents at the present time.  Additionally, IPO is not aware of any legislative proposals today that merit serious consideration or debate."
6/28. The European Commission prohibited the merger of MCI WorldCom and Sprint. European Competition Commissioner Mario Monti stated that "It was vital for the Commission that the divested business became a strong, viable competitor to prevent the merged WorldCom/Sprint from dominating Internet backbone. The companies' offer failed to guarantee this because Sprint's Internet business is completely intertwined with its traditional telecoms activities." See, EU release.
6/28. The New Democratic Coalition, a group of Democrats in the U.S. House, unveiled its "E-genda," which includes relaxing controls on encryption export controls, raising the MTOPS limit, trade with China, national education standards, e-rate,  H-1B visa expansion, permanent extension of the R&D tax credit, digital signatures,   moratorium on Internet taxes, securities litigation reform, and patent reform. See, release of Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA).
6/28. The CDT, ALA, and Common Cause, began a voter registration campaign for the upcoming global election for Directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). See, CDT's ICANN registration page.
6/28. AOL and Time Warner filed a response to the FCC's second round of questions in its antitrust merger review proceeding. The 50 page response defends AOL's efforts to keep its instant messenger (IM) service closed to the users of competing IM services. See also, FCC's AOL-TW merger page.
6/28. The House Banking Committee approved HR 4419, the Internet Gambling Funding Prohibition Act. It was watered down by an amendment offered by Rep. John Sweeney (R-NY). The bill prohibits the use of checks, credit cards, and electronic funds transfers for Internet gambling. The amendment restricts the prohibition of the bill to Internet gambling that is unlawful under applicable state or federal law. See, Tech Law Journal story.
6/28. The Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and Government Information held a hearing on countering the changing threat of international terrorism.
6/28. Microsoft attacked Oracle after it admitted that it hired investigators to conduct covert operations against the pro-Microsoft public policy group, Americans for Competitive Technology (ACT). "This is dramatic evidence that Microsoft's competitors have engaged in a massive and ongoing campaign to unfairly tarnish Microsoft's public image and promote government intervention to benefit themselves," said Microsoft in a release. See, Tech Law Journal story.
6/28. The NCTA named Steve Vest its VP of Congressional Affairs, effective July 1. He will report to Pam Turner, SVP of Gov. Relations. See, NCTA release.
6/28. The Intellectual Property Owners Assoc. gave its Intellectual Property Legislator of the Year Awards to Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Rep. Howard Coble (R-NC).
6/27. AT&T said that it plans to allow its high-speed cable modem customers in Massachusetts to choose their Internet service provider. See, AT&T release.
6/27. The FCC announced that it will hold an en banc hearing on the AOL Time Warner merger on July 27. See, FCC release.
6/27. The DOJ filed a complaint in U.S District Court in Washington DC seeking a permanent injunction of the proposed merger of MCI WorldCom and Sprint. The complaint alleges the merger would cause harm to competition because, among other things, the two companies are "the largest and second-largest of a small group of top-tier providers of Internet 'backbone' network services in the United States and the world; [and] the second- and third-largest of three providers who collectively dominate long distance telecommunications ..." See, DOJ release.
6/27. FCC Chairman Wm. Kennard released a statement praising the DOJ suit: "I applaud today's action by the Department of Justice to preserve competition and protect consumers. In my view, American consumers are better served if these companies continue to compete rather than combine." The Consumers Union stated that "We are pleased to see antitrust officials finally step in and say 'enough is enough' in the face of merger mania." See, release.
6/27. Sprint's EVP and General Counsel Richard Devlin released a statement. "We are disappointed that we have been unable to convince the Justice Department that the merger is in the best interest of the American public and would advance competition. Over the next several days we will determine our next steps. ..." See, Sprint release.
6/27. The Senate attached to HR 4577, the Labor appropriations bill, two Internet filtering amendments. An amendment offered by Sen. McCain (R-AZ), which would require schools and libraries receiving e-rate subsidies to use filtering software on computers used by minors, passed by a vote of 95 to 3. A second amendment offered by Sen. Santorum (R-PA), which would give schools and libraries the option of merely adopting a policy, passed by a vote of 75 to 24. Both amendments had also been introduced as stand alone bills in 1999. Sen. McCain's bill, S 97 RS, was reported by the Senate Commerce Committee on June 23, 1999. Sen. Santorum's bill, S 1545 IS, was introduced on Aug. 5, 1999. See, Tech Law Journal summary of Internet filtering bills.
6/27. The House Telecom Subcommittee approved HR 4019, a bill to limit FCC merger review authority, with amendments. See, HR 4019 as amended.
6/27. FTC Commissioner Orson Swindle stated in remarks at a Heritage Foundation forum in Washington DC that the next Congress will pass an online privacy bill. See, Tech Law Journal story and summary of online privacy bills.
6/27. The Consumer Federation of America (CFA) sent a letter to the FCC stating that "the FCC must establish broad principles for open access that apply to all advanced service providers" - cable and DSL. The letter relies on the June 22 U.S. Court of Appeals Opinion in AT&T v. Portland, which stated that broadband cable Internet access is a "telecommunications" service with the meaning of the Communications Act. The CFA further stated that the FCC "should order AT&T to file tariffs at the FCC outlining the just, reasonable and nondiscriminatory 'charges, practices, classifications and regulations' for broadband Internet interconnection." The letter was filed in the § 271 proceeding pertaining to SBC's application to provide interLATA long distance service in Texas [CC Docket No. 00-65.]
6/26. AOL and Time Warner submitted their response to the FCC's first request for more information in its merger review proceeding. The FCC submitted a second request to AOL for more information. On June 27 the House Telecom Subcommittee will mark up HR 4019, a bill to limit the FCC's merger review authority.
6/26. Mario Monti, European Commissioner for Competition Policy, gave a speech in Washington DC. He stated that "we are currently witnessing a wave of merger activity, spurred by economic globalisation and technological developments, which in some respects bears a remarkable similarity to the industrial concentration which occurred at the end of the last century." He also said, "I believe that we should continue to strive toward increasing substantive convergence in the application of our respective merger rules, given in particular that our two jurisdictions are increasingly being called upon to assess the same transactions."
6/26. Gene Kimmelman, Co-Director of the Consumers Union (CU), wrote a letter to FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky regarding the AOL Time Warner merger. See also, the CU's April 26 request to the FCC to stop the AOL Time Warner merger.
6/26. The House approved HR 4690, the Commerce Justice State (CJS) appropriations bill, late Monday night.
6/26. The Business Software Alliance (BSA) launched a "Piracy Sweeps Week," announcing software piracy settlements, and promoting its toll free hotline 888 NOPIRACY.
6/26. The SEC named John McCarthy Assoc. Dir. for Market Oversight, a new position. His job will include overseeing new trading systems and electronic communications networks. See, SEC release.
6/26. FCC Commissioner Gloria Tritani gave a speech in Washington DC on children and media. She stated that "The most popular sham objection to protecting children from harmful media influences is the First Amendment." She added that "the Supreme Court should revisit the doctrine set forth in Roth" and that "Congress and state governments ought to legislate in this area".
6/26. The FCC gave final approval to the Qwest U S West merger. On March 10, 2000, the FCC approved the proposed merger subject to the Qwest’s divestiture of its long distance services in U S WEST’s region.  See, FCC release and Qwest release.
6/23. The Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) approved the Qwest U S West merger. This completes all required regulatory approvals in the 14-state region. See, Qwest release and ACC release.
6/23. The House continued consideration of HR 4690, the Commerce Justice State (CJS) appropriations bill. Rep. Howard Coble (R-NC), Chairman of the CIP Subcommittee, offered an amendment to increase funding for the USPTO by $134 Million. It was rejected on a roll call vote of 145 to 223. See, Roll Call No. 321.
6/23. There was more Reaction to the Court of Appeals Opinion in AT&T v. Portland. GTE issued a release that described the opinion as "the 'nightmare scenario' for the cable industry, that have used all of their resources and lobbying prowess over the past year to obtain and protect special treatment for their affiliated Internet service providers such as Excite@Home." The USTA stated in a release that "The 9th Circuit has unequivocally determined that broadband transport is a common carrier service ... The FCC should immediately begin a proceeding leading to across-the-board nondominant carrier status for all broadband and advanced services providers, including incumbent local telephone companies." See also, openNET release and HOTI release. See also, Tech Law Journal story and case summary.
6/23. AT&T announced new long distance rates in a tariff filed with the FCC. FCC Commissioner Gloria Tristani criticized the move: "With its latest tariff filing, AT&T has failed to deliver the consumer benefits it promised as a participant in CALLS. ... I think we should put CALLS on hold." See also, AT&T release and reaction from FCC Chairman Wm. Kennard.
6/23. The FCC adopted a Third Report and Order and Memorandum Opinion and Order which allows the LMDS eligibility restriction to sunset on June 30, 2000. This restriction was adopted in 1997 and prohibits ILECs and incumbent cable companies from having an attributable interest in the LMDS A block license that overlaps with ten percent or more of the population in their service areas. [FCC Docket No. 92-297.] See, FCC release.
6/22. The European Council adopted a new dual use regulation for goods and technologies which can be used for military purposes. See, EU release.
6/22. U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued its Opinion upholding the District Court opinion which held that the the Child Online Protection Act violates the First Amendment. The law bans distributing to minors over the Internet material that is "harmful to minors". The ACLU and others challenged it.
6/22. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued its Opinion in AT&T v. Portland reversing the District Court. See, Tech Law Journal story and summary of the case.
6/22. The House began consideration of HR 4690, the Commerce Justice State (CJS) appropriations bill. The bill includes funding for the DOC, DOJ, FCC, FTC and USPTO. Rep. David Obey (D-WI) offered an amendment to increase funding for the DOJ's Antitrust Division by $20.7 Million and for the FTC's antitrust activities by $29.7 Million. The amendment was ruled out of order. Rep. Howard Coble (R-NC) may introduce an amendment to end the diversion of USPTO fees to fund other government programs. Rep. Mike Oxley (R-OH) may introduce an amendment to prevent the FCC from using any funds in its low power FM licensing proceeding.
6/22. Rambus and Hitachi settled their patent infringement suits pending in U.S. District Court, and in Germany. Hitachi has signed a patent license agreement and will pay Rambus an up-front settlement fee, as well as quarterly royalty payments. The suit concerned Rambus' high speech memory interfaces implemented in Hitachi's SDRAM and Double Data Rate (DDR) SDRAM memory and controllers. See, Rambus release.
6/22. European Competition Commissioner Mario Monti arrived in Washington DC for meetings with U.S. officials regarding antitrust matters. He is scheduled to meet with Atty. Gen. Janet Reno, Asst. A.G. Joel Klein, FTC Chairman Rbt. Pitofsky, FTC Commissioner Mozelle Thompson, FCC Chairman Wm. Kennard, and USTR Charlene Barshefsky. He will also meet with legislators involved in antitrust policy, including Sen. Mike DeWine (R-OH) and Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI), the Chairman and Ranking Democrat of the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee, and Rep. Henry Hyde (R-IL), the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
6/22. The DOJ approved the merger of fiberoptic companies JDS Uniphase and E-TEK Dynamics, with conditions. See, releases of E-TEK, JDS Uniphase, and DOJ.
6/22. The Senate Judiciary Committee postponed action on S 2448, the Internet Integrity and Critical Infrastructure Protection Act of 2000, at its weekly executive business meeting.
6/21. Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT) and 5 other Senators wrote a letter to FTC Chairman Rbt. Pitofsky urging that he include privacy groups in current negotiations regarding self-regulation of online privacy. See, release.
6/21. The House rejected H.J. Res. 90, a resolution that would withdraw Congressional support for continued U.S. participation in the World Trade OrganizationWTO, by a vote of 363 to 56.
6/22. The House Government Reform Committee's Subcommittee on Government Management, Information, and Technology held a hearing on HR 4246, the Cyber Security Information Act of 2000.
6/22. The House Science Committee's Subcommittee on Technology held a hearing titled "E-Commerce: A Review of Standards and Technology to Support Interoperability." See, statements of Rep. Connie Morella, Kenneth BakerKaren Brown (NIST), Keith Krach (Ariba), Ron Zoppo (CompTIA). Rep. Morella stated: "The Federal government should not be mandating standards for e-commerce or in any other Internet area. Perhaps, however, NIST can assist the private sector in developing and promoting standards ..."
6/22. The House Commerce Committee's Telecom Subcommittee held a hearing on HR 4445, a bill to exempt from reciprocal compensation requirements telecommunications traffic to the Internet.
6/22. FTC Commissioner Orson Swindle addressed the Delegation of the European Parliament on Privacy Issues at a reception and dinner in Washington DC.
6/22. The Federal Election Commission unanimously approved an advisory opinion [PDF], with one minor amendment, which states that iNEXTV's planned web cast of the Democratic and Republican national conventions do not constitute "expenditures" or "contributions" within the meaning of the Federal Election Campaign Act.
6/21. The Federal Election Commission published in the Federal Register (FR 65, No. 120, June 21, 2000, p. 38415) regulations to implement a mandatory electronic filing system for reports of campaign finance activity. Beginning with reporting periods that start on or after January 1, 2001, political committees and other persons will be required to file electronically when either their total contributions or total expenditures within a calendar year exceed, or are expected to exceed, $50,000. See, FEC release.
6/21. Technology companies, privacy advocates, and other organizations met in New York City to conduct the first public tests and demonstrate implementations of the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P), the World Wide Web Consortium's Web privacy technology. See, W3 release.
6/21. Andrew Pincus, DOC General Counsel, released a statement praising the P3P initiative, and stating that portions of the Commerce Department and White House web sites are P3P compliant.
6/21. Microsoft announced at the World Wide Web Consortium's P3P Interoperability Session that its next version of Windows will include privacy enabling technologies based on the P3P specification. See, release.
6/21. The EPIC released a report titled "Pretty Poor Privacy: An Assessment of P3P and Internet Privacy." The report concludes: "P3P fails to comply with baseline standards for privacy protection. It is a complex and confusing protocol that will make it more difficult for Internet users to protect their privacy. P3P also fails to address many of the privacy problems specifically associated with the Internet."
6/21. The EU released a statement on its MCI WC - Sprint merger review proceeding. "Given the numerous questions raised by today's article in the Washington Post, the Commission wishes to emphasise that it would be premature at this stage to prejudge its decision on the proposed merger between MCI WorldCom and Sprint, given that the deadline for a ruling is July 12 and that the merger advisory committee has not yet given its opinion."
6/21. National Exchange Carrier Association (NECA) released a study [PDF] that concludes that it would cost $10.9 Billion to upgrade rural area telephone lines to broadband capability. See, NECA release. See also, USTA reaction.
6/21. The FCC announced that it has received 769 applications for low power FM radio licenses. House passed HR 3439, the Radio Broadcasting Preservation Act, by a vote of 274 to 110 on April 13. The bill restricts the FCC's authority to issue low power FM licenses. A similar bill, S 2068, is pending in the Senate. See, FCC release.
6/20. The SEC announced that three more traders have agreed to settle charges that they engaged in insider trading in advance of IBM's takeover of Lotus. See. SEC release.
6/20. The House Banking Committee held a hearing on HR 4419 IH, the Internet Gambling Funding Prohibition Act, a bill to ban the use of certain bank instruments for Internet gambling. See, statements of Rep. Jim Leach (R-IA), Gregory Baer (Treasury Dept.), Kevin Di Gregory (Justice Dept.), Alan Kesner (NAAG), Richard Leone (former Commissioner on the NGISC), Daniel Nestel (NCAA), Alec Ingle (NY Racing Assoc.). See also, Tech Law Journal summary of Internet gambling bills.
6/20. U.S. District Court Judge Jackson issued an Order certifying the Microsoft case for direct consideration by the Supreme Court, and staying his Final Judgment. He wrote: "ORDERED, that the joint motion by plaintiffs for certification pursuant to 15 U.S.C. § 29(b) is granted, and this Court hereby certifies that immediate consideration by the Supreme Court of the appeal taken herein is of general public importance in the administration of justice; and it is FURTHER ORDERED, that the Final Judgment of June 7, 2000, is stayed in its entirety until the appeal therefrom is heard and decided, unless the stay is earlier vacated by an appellate court."
See also, reaction from the DOJ.
6/19. EDS and the ITAA released the results of a poll of 1,000 Americans on cybercrime. The poll found that 67% feel threatened by or are concerned about cybercrime. 62% believe that not enough is being done to protect Internet consumers against cybercrime. See, ITAA release.
6/19. FCC Commissioner Gloria Tristani gave a speech at the American Enterprise Institute titled "Campaigns, Broadcasters, and the Public Interest" in which she criticized the broadcast industry for not providing enough campaign coverage.
6/19. The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington DC issued a per curiam order [PDF] which states that "the motion for summary dismissal of Microsoft's motion for leave to file a motion for stay pending appeal on the ground that it is premature, or to defer consideration pending a determination as to jurisdiction, is hereby denied." The order also sets a briefing schedule on Microsoft's motion for stay. However, the order further states that "in the event that the district court certifies the appeal under 15 U.S.C. § 29, this briefing schedule will be automatically suspended. If the Supreme Court accepts jurisdiction, the schedule will be moot..."
6/19. Microsoft filed with the U.S. District Court its opposition to the government's motion for certification of direct appeal to the Supreme Court.
6/19. The European Commission decided to open a full investigation into the proposed merger of AOL and Time Warner. See, EU release.
6/19. A group of corporate CEOs and trade association executives announced the formation of the Privacy Leadership Initiative. Members include Procter & Gamble, Ford, IBM, Intel, AT&T, Dell, Compaq, Travelocity.com, E*TRADE, and DoubleClick. The group states that it will "accelerate adoption of privacy technologies designed to give consumers control over their own privacy" and "create specific privacy practices for companies to implement that address key privacy concerns". See, IBM release.
6/19. The House Rules Committee adopted a modified closed rule for HR 4201, the Noncommercial Broadcasting Freedom of Expression Act of 2000.
6/16. Reps. Dick Armey (R-TX), Billy Tauzin (R-LA), and Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) sent a letter to Bill Clinton and Al Gore regarding the FTC's recommendation that Congress pass online privacy protection legislation. They stated: "... it would be helpful to have some information about how the Federal government meets the criteria outlined by this recommendation. It would be hypocritical for the Federal government to mandate a standard on the private sector that it cannot itself meet. As you know, the Federal government collects and stores far more personal information than the private sector."
6/16. The Senate passed the conference report on S 761, the electronic signatures bill. The House passed the measure on June 14. Signature by the President is expected shortly.
6/16. The FCC approved the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE subject to 25 conditions, including the sale of GTE's Internet assets (Genuity). See, FCC order [PDF file with about 500 pages and 1,000 footnotes] and Kennard statement. See also, GTE release. Comm. Furchtgott- Roth dissented in part. "I do not endorse the quasi-antitrust analysis that this Commission has used to determine whether a license transfer is in the "public interest," ... Nor do I support those conditions that are essentially carbon copies of the conditions that the Commission imposed on the SBC / Ameritech transaction. Also, the Consumer's Union criticized the order in a release.
6/16. The USTR announced the results of §1377 reviews of telecommunications services trade barriers for the United Kingdom, Germany and South Africa. "Each of these countries have shown progress in addressing the concerns we expressed in our annual review of telecommunications agreements," said USTR Barshefsky. See, USTR release. See also, CompTel reaction.
6/16. The DOJ filed with the U.S. District Court another brief regarding Microsoft's motion for stay.

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