Blog: John Myers: And who said that collusion was just for oil companies?

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And who said that collusion was just for oil companies?

"Collusion is an agreement, usually secretive, which occurs between two or more persons to deceive, mislead, or defraud others of legal rights, or to obtain an objective forbidden by law typically involving fraud or gaining an unfair advantage and can involve "wage fixing, kickbacks, or misrepresenting the independence of the relationship between the colluding parties."

Wow. You head off to the desert for a couple of days and the established telecos get into a pricing war that looks like a "gas sale" at the four stations that sit on the corner of a major intersection.

While I do doubt that the established telecos are involved in true collusion, facts like that never get in the way of a good "collusion" story in the press or from a consumer protection organization. In any event, this is another example of how telecom pricing, in particular telecom pricing the in the US, is heading not toward consumption based billing, but rather toward "all you can eat" buffet style pricing.

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