Translated into the human speak, it means that Apple and China mobile are now engaged in negotiations about order commitments, price, subsidy amounts and revenue sharing.
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So far it's four friends from The iLife blog keeping each other company, with plans to upgrade one of the crew's original iPhones (for that attractive full subsidy price).
Since 10% of your gas was probably ethanol, about 4.5 cents of your price increase was that subsidy.
Manufacturers still sell their device at the full ticket price, and the subsidy is a hard fought round of negotiation.
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In practice, this is setting the market price and represents a subsidy.
Not acknowledged here is that this tax subsidy makes businesses marginally less caring about the price of insuring their employees, and this subsidy means individuals not on a company plan must suffer higher health costs driven up by this tax benefit.
Last year, an outcry prevented Mr Singh from fulfilling a budget commitment to lower the government's subsidy of the price of fertiliser.
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Every quarter in which a Telco sells a lot of iPhones, its margins drop because of the large subsidy to the price of the phone to the retail consumer.
It is sold at a higher price than ordinary food, with a subsidy passed back to the farmer.
The Iranian government can scarcely afford the subsidy, but raising the price of gasoline would potentially wreck the economy.
This program is classified as a petroleum subsidy because it artificially reduces the price of oil.
Drivers put up with alcohol only because it seems to be competitive in price (after the benefit of a federal subsidy) with gasoline.
Only Iran, which had the most generous subsidy regime, has managed a big price hike and it had a handy scapegoat in the form of sanctions.
On September 28th, the Civil Aviation Authority, the airports' regulator, is to recommend a new method of price regulation, which will end the cross-subsidy of airport charges.
Most of this burden was carried as an implicit subsidy to domestic energy consumers, with the price of diesel fuel, for example, set at the equivalent of two American cents a litre, and petrol selling for less than bottled water.
Kill the subsidy on new handsets, and drastically lower the price of the monthly plans.
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Not only does the subsidy waste money, but it artificially drives up the price of food all over the planet.
In the beautiful, but poor, Asturias region in north-western Spain, the subsidy underwrites production of coal at seven times the world price.
And it's harsh to blame operators for the price of commuter routes, which are largely determined by the level of subsidy, says Smith.
Mr Yudhoyono has been bolder, better prepared and perhaps luckier, twice cutting the subsidy in 2005 and then again in 2008 as the oil price soared.
That unsubsidized price is still too high to compete in most markets with retail electricity without subsidy.
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Manufacturers are giving away cartons of milk to highlight the threat to a European Commission subsidy scheme under which primary schools can receive milk at a discounted price.
But Oxfam has been criticised for failing to point out that any reduction in subsidy for farmers would be likely to lead to an increase in the price of food in the shops.
But the fall in the oil price early this year was passed on to consumers, missing a chance to reduce the subsidy further.
Paying a guaranteed Fairtrade premium in effect, a subsidy both prevents this signal from getting through and, by raising the average price paid for coffee, encourages more producers to enter the market.
Despite their failure to find flagrant subsidy in Rolls-Royce's accounts, Americans in the industry wonder how Rolls-Royce can price so keenly.
The fact that China and others are also paying this subsidy has not been lost on them, which may be why we see the steady climb in the price of gold.
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