I saw the new Bond flick, ‘Quantum of Solace’, over the weekend and I was amazed at how progressive it is. No longer does our alpha-male hero wreak destruction upon villains with moon bases, bent on world domination. His latest homicidal rampage is to prevent a new terror: oligopoly pricing.
Category Archive: Antitrust
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Nov
06
2008
Com Com investigating mobile termination rates
For those of you who don’t subscribe to the Commerce Commission’s media releases, they have just announced that they are investigating mobile termination rates. (Reasons here). In simple terms, the termination rate is what vodafone charges telecom every time a telecom customer calls a vodafone customer and vice-versa. The CC has decided that the rates …
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Oct
10
2008
Warehouse Extra is gone : Part 2
For those of you don’t read stuff.co.nz while they should be working, there are some really interesting tidbits on the latest article about the Warehouse pahsing out the extra concept. It expected an annualised pre-tax improvement in trading earnings of about $9 million. i.e. the extra concept has been hemorrhaging money! Mr Morrice said it …
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Oct
09
2008
Warehouse Extra is Gone!
One of the longer takeover sagas appears to have ended with the warehouse having announced its decision to end the warehouse extra format. This will effectively clear the way for either of the big two supermarkets to take over the warehouse. This is because the commerce commission is of the opinion that the warehouse would …
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Feb
01
2008
Telecom being prosecuted for misleading adds:Fair enough
Telecom is being prosecuted by the Com Com for it’s adds related to the “Go Large” internet plan. I personally think it’s fair enough. The fine print of “fair use” plans means (although they are much more reasonable then they used to be) that you are severely punished interms of your download speed for fairly …
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