bundling is not anti competitive

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Post #237,948 by boxley 12/13/05 6:57:01 PM Reply	bundling is not anti competitive If I provide you with a phone, tv, internet and video on demand with the best quality at the best price why go with the other guy. As a provider of all of the above I must have the best networks, best customer service and best competative offer to keep you as a customer. Bundling drives innovation, investment in infrastructure and customer service. thanx, bill "the reason people don't buy conspiracy theories is that they think conspiracy means everyone is on the same program. Thats not how it works. Everybody has a different program. They just all want the same guy dead. Socrates was a gadfly, but I bet he took time out to screw somebodies wife" Gus Vitelli Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 49 years. meep questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #237,950 by ben_tilly 12/13/05 7:18:50 PM Reply	It can be I direct you to the Microsoft trial. In US law, if you have a monopoly in one area, using bundling to try to leverage that monopoly in another is anti-competitive. If you do not have a monopoly, then you're allowed to bundle to your heart's content in your quest for customers. An economic note. If there are two competitors in the same space, one of whom bundles and the other of whom sells services individually, the predicted result is a disasterous price war between them until one or the other goes out of business. Cheers, Ben I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Post #237,960 by boxley 12/13/05 8:42:54 PM Reply	situation right now is phone/cable/cellular/wifi all occupying the same space, markets. Example Verizon in Norfolk Virginia vs other operators. thanx, bill "the reason people don't buy conspiracy theories is that they think conspiracy means everyone is on the same program. Thats not how it works. Everybody has a different program. They just all want the same guy dead. Socrates was a gadfly, but I bet he took time out to screw somebodies wife" Gus Vitelli Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 49 years. meep questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]

ISPs want to change basic Internet QOS terms - (JayMehaffey) - (10) - Dec. 13, 2005, 05:56:16 PM EST

ISPs should be forcibly divested of all non-ISP businesses. - (inthane-chan) - (9) - Dec. 13, 2005, 06:07:48 PM EST

bundling is not anti competitive - (boxley) - (2) - Dec. 13, 2005, 06:57:01 PM EST

It can be - (ben_tilly) - (1) - Dec. 13, 2005, 07:18:50 PM EST

situation right now is phone/cable/cellular/wifi - (boxley) - Dec. 13, 2005, 08:42:54 PM EST

There's a better solution. - (static) - (5) - Dec. 13, 2005, 07:16:55 PM EST

Better? - (ben_tilly) - (1) - Dec. 13, 2005, 07:29:15 PM EST

That's taking it further than I had envisaged... - (static) - Dec. 13, 2005, 07:45:28 PM EST

Okay who pays for the copper/fibre plants? - (boxley) - (2) - Dec. 13, 2005, 08:45:55 PM EST

They are a special case. - (static) - (1) - Dec. 13, 2005, 09:07:21 PM EST

Oh gawd, then the union wars start - (boxley) - Dec. 13, 2005, 09:13:06 PM EST

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