AT&T and Verizon Fight Back Against Price Fixing Accusation
Jun 17, 2009, 7:53 AM by Eric M. Zeman
Both AT&T and Verizon Wireless have responded publicly to allegations that they colluded to raise the prices of individual text messages. The rate to send a single message has risen from 10 cents to 20 cents between 2006 and 2008. Several senators allege that the price increases prove a lack of competition in the market. AT&T and Verizon each issued statements noting the fact that the price increases in text messaging fees affect only about 17% of their customer base, as the remaining 83% have chosen to subscribe to bundled messaging plans. In sum, only 1% of all sent text messages actually cost 20 cents.
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Punishment
donebrasko said:
They are forcing people to get text plans. Thats why they raised the prices. So if you dont get a text plan, they will punish you by making you pay more.
Exactly. That is the intent of the exorbi...
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Under the new system it is 25 messages. Yes, it is lower, but honestly... if you are texting more than 30 messages a mo...
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notice how almost all featues of their plans are alike
so the number of people using the service does not in any way prove that their guilty of price fixing or otherwise..really i dont see the sense of the two providers argument...or maybe im wrong i dunno..somebody explain this to me 😳
Thanks Guys
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Lack of competition?
Then why the hell do they keep allowing companies to merge? AT&T/Cingular, Verizon/Alltel, Sprint/Nextel.
Wahhhhhh lack of competition.
Yankees368 said:...
The government is complaining about lack of competition?!?
Then why the hell do they keep allowing companies to merge? AT&T/Cingular, Verizon/Alltel, Sprint/Nextel.
Wahhhhhh lack of competition.
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What about charging customers for text messaging and data....
EliteABombAZ said:
The carriers should not be able to get away with charging customers for data plans and texting plans... when all text messages are just little bits of DATA!
W/ the exception of some MMS, SMS do no...
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Price Fixing