But where pricing has been introduced, as in Scandinavia, it has proved effective and popular.
No pricing has been released yet, and availability in Japan will be this Spring.
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Pricing has been stable for a few months, now, and that usually indicates the beginning of a recovery.
Pricing has been flat to upward-biased in many parts of HDDs, and there have been no indications of over-supply.
The handset pricing has been on a continuous decline due to decreasing input costs associated with making a mobile phone.
This innovation could unleash a new wave of Internet growth, particularly in Europe, where monopolistic telephone pricing has been a serious barrier.
The market now seems to agree that the pricing has been overdone.
No pricing has been announced yet for the entry-level spec'd models, but consumers there may want to check their wardrobes before picking up one of the bolder models.
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Bob Hunter, director of insurance for the Consumer Federation, says industry pricing has been in that "soft cycle" for the past three years, following a 7% increase in 2002.
Carriers have argued (lied, frankly) that such penalties are necessary due to network congestion or financial well being, despite the fact that flat-rate pricing has been perfectly profitable, the costs of delivering broadband continue to plummet, and most well-run fixed-line networks experience limited to no substantive congestion.
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Likewise, a well formed tight base on a stock that has slumped indicates that a re-pricing move has been completed and a new equilibrium has been reached.
But this aggressive pricing has also been supported by further enhancements in customer service.
Pricing has not been set and it's entirely possible that 3D VoD titles will be free at first in order to build momentum and to ensure viewer lock-in of the all important child demographic.
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Pricing has not been announced.
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Road-pricing has long been championed by economists, keen to impose more of the external costs of driving on road-users by charging them a fee that reflects not just the distance travelled (which is loosely what gasoline taxes do) but also the time and route of the journey.
With almost no room for pricing, Heinz has been performing poorly in the Australian segment.
We actually have three grids, not one, and because state utility commissions are stingy when it comes to pricing, maintenance has been haphazard.
David Cameron supports minimum alcohol pricing and the government has been consulting on a price of 45p per unit.
However, pricing pressures that Akamai has been facing from competitors such as Limelight Networks, Edgecast and Level 3 for its core content delivery network service may continue to be a deterrent.
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Another insurmountable roadblock up until now has been pricing.
Conventional wisdom says the market has been pricing in massive quantitative easing since the Jackson Hole Fed retreat, and the upcoming announcement, if it comes in light of expectations, could trigger a strong sell-off.
One publisher said that while pricing is a worry, Amazon has been very fair and has indicated that publishers will have more say on pricing in time.
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Of late, the U.S. oil field services sector has been impacted by weak natural gas pricing, which has taken its toll on companies that offer pressure pumping services.
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Adding to the pain, Roche has been facing pricing pressure in developed markets.
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The company, which ditched hundreds of sales in favor of "everyday pricing" last year, has been suffering as shoppers flee to competitors.
Cochrane is the author of a bible of finance called Asset Pricing but in recent times has been piercing the pieties of macroeconomics.
According to Zohar Hod of SuperDerivatives, a derivatives-pricing firm, there has already been movement away from LIBOR towards using overnight index swaps to discount cash flows on certain instruments.
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"The lower pricing environment, where Pace has been reducing its average prices by between 10% and 20%, will impact revenues for the full year, which should be broadly similar to last year, " the company said in a statement.
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