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> Making other things more expensive because you're just trying to differentiate from competition is a money grab. How does this make any sense? If anything, m
by beaconstudios 8y ago
> Making other things more expensive because you're just trying to differentiate from competition is a money grab.
How does this make any sense? If anything, making general access more expensive is going to drive consumers to move to a different provider.
- viraptor 8y agoIn a perfect world - yes. But phone/network providers have some weird tendency to end up being mono-/oligopolies. They like when prices are high at every provider, even without "real collusion". For example look at roaming rates in Europe. For decades sending messages/data from another country was crazy expensive - with every single provider. Once EU ruled that roaming charges in the EU should not apply, there was no crisis or huge rise of prices to compensate the losses. Once it was forced, companies started to race each other to announce how awesome they are, being the first in the country to provide free roaming.