big monkey
join:2002-02-19
Charlotte, NC
|  reply to pugsam4
Re: Predatory Pricing in Montgomery County, MD
The correct response to this type of behavior isn't to try to get Concast to stop it, it is to get Starpower EVERYWHERE in the county.
As a first step, county officials should let Starpower cherry-pick the areas it would like to serve, likely those with high-enuf density to to have good economies of scale, and not insist that it try to go toe-to-toe with Concast yet.
Concast will howl, bluster, threaten, and perhaps go to court, which the county shouldn't be afriad of. Then you can make the case that rather engage in a costly and nearly impossible round of monitoring Concast's pricing and promotions to every possible customer, the route of speeding Starpower's rollout by removing regulatory roadblocks was deemed the preferable and more efficient course.
Besides, do we really want to say that all loss-leader promotions are ipso facto predatory? Granted, it is different with a state-licensed monopoly, but I prefer to work that side of the equation. |
