Sentences with phrase «carrier price war»

Many are expecting promotions and prices to continue to be cut in the much - anticipated carrier price war.

Not exact matches

A fierce and ongoing price war among the Big Four carriers is only compounding the pressure telecoms are facing.

Not only will the combined carrier reach about the same customer base as larger rivals Verizon (vz) and AT&T (t), but reducing the number of competitors in the market to three from four should also reduce competitive pressure that led to a fierce price war over the past year.

Finally, periodic price wars with larger carriers undermined the carrier's unit revenue.

The carrier's price war has won it customers and profit - but left Sprint in the red and in part prompted AT&T's $ 85 bln bid for the media giant and Verizon's M&A hunt.

Risks and uncertainties include without limitation the effect of competitive and economic factors, and the Company's reaction to those factors, on consumer and business buying decisions with respect to the Company's products; continued competitive pressures in the marketplace; the ability of the Company to deliver to the marketplace and stimulate customer demand for new programs, products, and technological innovations on a timely basis; the effect that product introductions and transitions, changes in product pricing or mix, and / or increases in component costs could have on the Company's gross margin; the inventory risk associated with the Company's need to order or commit to order product components in advance of customer orders; the continued availability on acceptable terms, or at all, of certain components and services essential to the Company's business currently obtained by the Company from sole or limited sources; the effect that the Company's dependency on manufacturing and logistics services provided by third parties may have on the quality, quantity or cost of products manufactured or services rendered; risks associated with the Company's international operations; the Company's reliance on third - party intellectual property and digital content; the potential impact of a finding that the Company has infringed on the intellectual property rights of others; the Company's dependency on the performance of distributors, carriers and other resellers of the Company's products; the effect that product and service quality problems could have on the Company's sales and operating profits; the continued service and availability of key executives and employees; war, terrorism, public health issues, natural disasters, and other circumstances that could disrupt supply, delivery, or demand of products; and unfavorable results of other legal proceedings.

Thrifty Traveler noted that in the event of a «share recapture,» an airline can lower ticket prices in another market to impact an airline adversary — an often localized and short - lived event — or a brief fare war in which an airline attacks another carrier's hubs by lowering flights from those specific airports.

Remember back in the day when airlines staged price wars and it became a game to predict which carrier would capitulate first when the race was on to compete for passengers?

Spanish flag - carrier Iberia is heading for its first annual years in 13 years as a fall in business class traffic and a price war in economy erode margins.Chief executive Fernando Conte warned shareholders that passengers travelling business had fallen 20 percent year - on - year due to a sharp fall in business travel on its routes from Madrid to London and Latin America.

Those subsidies started going away around 2013 and ended altogether earlier this year as pricing wars between the carriers hurt their businesses.

As mobile industry analyst Chetan Sharma has pointed out, one kick from a single upstart carrier has set off price wars in other countries around the world.

A price war started by a new phone carrier, Reliance Jio, in 2016 has given India one of the lowest prices for data in the world.

Sprint, the third - biggest mobile carrier in the nation, is offering the latest iPhone models through a leasing program that it is banking on to help it catch up with Verizon Wireless and AT&T and gain more customers, even as T - Mobile is aggressively waging a price war from the lower end.