Re: NEWS: US edges towards mobile antitrust case

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From: Gordon Burditt
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:43

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>There are four national providers of wireless service.  We have more
>choice and selection in wireless than we do in breakfast cereals, and
>soft drinks.  When 12-packs of Coke and Pepsi sell for exactly the same
>$3.50 at the local grocer, that's the benefit of competition.  When four
>wireless providers sell texts for the exact same $0.20 it's collusion? 

When you have to get a 2-year contract to buy Coke or Pepsi, and you
can't use the same drinking glasses for both Coke and Pepsi, I'd
say there are monopolistic practices at work.

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