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1 edit | Novus sued 1st and Shaw lawyers responded - surprise! Novus filed the 1st lawsuit over this and it isn't very surprising that Shaw fired back with their own lawsuit. Dueling lawsuits is std business practice in the world of large companies. You sue me, then I will sue you and then we will settle out of court to cut down those legal bills.
The company filed a complaint over Shaw's pricing in July with the Competition Bureau and launched a lawsuit in B.C. Supreme Court.
Calgary-based Shaw, which has more than two million customers, mostly in Western Canada, has fired back by filing a defamation lawsuit against Novus in B.C. Supreme Court. Proving predatory pricing is very hard to do because the real incremental costs of a service is usually well hidden from competitors and even regulators. Novus could be out of business before they ever got enough proof together to make their case. My guess is they will both come to a settlement of some sort and prices will go back to normal.
And this is what started the war. Novus blocked Shaw from new apartment buildings thru contracts while the buildings were being built.
Novus has for the past three years blocked access to Concord Pacific buildings, where Shaw has not been allowed to lay wiring while they were being built.
"Those buildings up until recently have never had access to our services," he said. --
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| Proving predatory pricing is very hard to do because the real incremental costs of a service is usually well hidden from competitors and even regulators. It doesn't exactly take a recombinant gene technologist to see that $9 for 200 SD and 25+ HD channels is artificially low. |
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2 edits | said by Karl Bode:Proving predatory pricing is very hard to do because the real incremental costs of a service is usually well hidden from competitors and even regulators. It doesn't exactly take a recombinant gene technologist to see that $9 for 200 SD and 25+ HD channels is artificially low. The story doesn't say, but is that $9.95 rate for a LIMITED time period? Sort of like the discounted rates all cable companies use. In those cases, some costs are eaten to conquer new customers from a competitor. And proving something in court isn't the same as assuming they are below cost.
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said by Karl Bode:Proving predatory pricing is very hard to do because the real incremental costs of a service is usually well hidden from competitors and even regulators. It doesn't exactly take a recombinant gene technologist to see that $9 for 200 SD and 25+ HD channels is artificially low. Direct TV has ads now where one gets 5 Months free!!! Sounds grea.*
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According to the Shaw ad image here, the 9.95 plan is promotional. It's actually free the first two months, then $9.95/service for months 3-12. My guess is that it's just a standard 12-month promotional rate and what's available at the end has not been decided. |
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said by Karl Bode:It doesn't exactly take a recombinant gene technologist to see that $9 for 200 SD and 25+ HD channels is artificially low. Or--- one could say... maybe costs are actually low enough this pricing is actually acceptable--- and the rest of us in Canada and the USA and elsewhere are being totally ROBBED!!! 
Personally though, $9 sounds low even to me.
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kudos:4 | said by KrK:Personally though, $9 sounds low even to me. It was $9.95 not $9. So closer to $10 than $9. |
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$10 Sounds low even to me! |
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