This actually happened much earlier in the first half of the 20th century. It was an international cartel with household names (GE, Osram, Phillips etc). "The

This actually happened much earlier in the first half of the 20th century. It was an international cartel with household names (GE, Osram, Phillips etc). "The cartel tested their bulbs and fined manufacturers for bulbs that lasted more than 1,000 hours." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-great-lightbulb-conspiracy https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-great-lightbulb-conspiracy