Sentences with phrase «companies subsidize the price»

I personally feel that most of us in India have been immune to price bumps to quite some extent as OnePlus has had an exclusive tie - up with Amazon and it is known that e-commerce companies subsidize the price of exclusive smartphones sold on their platform.

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Each phone is available at its full price, or a subsidized one through a carrier or company, so be sure to shop around for the best deal.

ACA planners attempted to undermine the insurance company model by proposing a public option - government - managed insurance that officials could deck out with generous benefits while subsidizing coverage to hold down policy prices.

The proposal would also allow the commission to explore usage - based pricing at some point, in which consumers are charged based on how much data they use and companies are able to subsidize traffic to their websites or applications.»

U.S. customs officials maintain that Canadian companies are subsidized and are «dumping» the product in the U.S., where producers of the same product can not afford to sell at equally cut - rate prices.

This is great news, that more companies are subsidizing the Galaxy Tab, which was heralded as the best tablet computer alternative to the Apple iPad, but whose price was a tremendous drawback from people pulling the trigger and actually buying one.

The company has not used this technology yet within ebooks, but has proved that subsidizing the price of hardware with adverts being displayed is quite tantalizing.

As principal analyst at The Enderle Group, Rob Enderle, points out: «This is a subsidized device that comes with advertisements that make money for the company and offsets that manufacturing price, giving Amazon its profit margins.»

Working together, the companies will try to offer the e-reader at a subsidized price if users pay for a multi-year content agreement, similar to mobile phone contracts, she said.

Prices will only go lower if a company goes Evil and decides to subsidize ebooks in return for exploiting us down the line.

Investment income usually subsidizes insurance companies; they lose money on underwriting on average, and when the pricing cycle is weak, they lose substantial amounts.

However others point out that Uber's VC backed business is subsidizing its current «affordable» prices — arguing that as pressure for the company to turn a profit cranks up then prices for an Uber ride are sure to rise.

Still, it seems likely that the company is losing money, because it's subsidizing the cost of every ticket its users buy, including in big cities where ticket prices hover around $ 15.