| reply to Aozora
Re: Set to begin legal fight with FCC over growth cap... The cell phone market is highly competitive. There used to be seven national providers (not all served the whole nation). Now there are 5. That's still more than the three needed for baseline national competition. And four of them are available in every continental state.
AT&T,Verizion,Sprint,T-Mobile
I can't believe you just claimed there is no competition in cell phones. There is plenty of competition, the problem with pricing is that the market itself is still growing resulting in increasing subscribers and revenue regardless of pricing (not that pricing hasn't come way down since cell phones started, because if you were older than 18 you would know how much cell phones used to cost). For the first time a national provider failed to grow last quarter. As a result price competition is beginning to take hold and prices should bottom out to the lowest price point possible. But that doesn't mean prices are high. On the contrary prices are pretty low given the massive infrastructure and it's maintenance costs. I wouldn't expect prices to fall below the cost of a landline + unlimited long distance plan. There is a baseline cost that must be recouped, and the constant upgrading of systems is costly. |
