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Re: Predatory Pricing... said by oliphant:What they're doing is illegal. They can not offer cheaper prices solely to deal with localized competition, while maintaining higher prices for other users where they don't have to compete unless the costs to deliver those goods or services justify the price difference which in this case it wouldn't. This is predatory pricing and is a violation of anti-trust laws. They are compelled by law to offer it to everyone, or no one. Of course they can As long as it is done to and entire franchise area whats illegal about it? Cable companies do this now in areas where verizon is deployed or any other over builder is deployed. Sounds like a little jealousy to me. They have individual franchise agreement with each city or town so that law applies to each franchise area not the company as a whole. |
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 oliphantI Have 8 BoobiesPremium
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Corona, CA
3 edits | The "similar" product isn't defined by the franchise area unless Verizon shows (if it is accused by consumers or the gov't anyway) it costs that different from franchise to franchise.
You really think it costs 3X the cost to deliver that service in one franchise versus another in the same state and it just so happens it's only very cheap to deliver service where they're seeing competition? I don't.
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| I never said it cost them 3x more. What you don't understand is they have no requirements in pricing across franchise areas. What your quoting applies only to companies like directv which have national franchises. Explain to me why its legal for comcast,TW,etc to offer cheaper prices in areas where verizon and other over builders exist meanwhile when verizon is lowering there prices its now illegal. Now do you think the price difference is only in cost? |
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oliphantI Have 8 BoobiesPremium
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Corona, CA
2 edits | The law was written long before DBS and doesn't have any regional restrictions. It speaks only of the product being sold, not where it is sold.
And I never said it's legal for Comcast to do so. Actually I said it's not, multiple times.
»Predatory pricing is a Federal Crime
»More predatory pricing by Comcrap
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| Verizon is doing it in areas where there is not Cablevision I think. They are testing the pricing scheme I think and it will be implemented at some point to the rest of the country. |
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