In the past, this was organized or arranged by re-insurers that negotiated special steered case rate pricing with hospitals of renown.
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Under flat-rate pricing, the price paid for electricity is the same for any hour of the day or season of the year.
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The truth is the ISP business is characterized by wafer-thin margins, low barriers to entry, flat-rate pricing, intense national competition and high customer support costs.
"There are a lot of companies in the business of grabbing as many people as possible with low flat-rate pricing, so when the big boys come to town they can sell their subscriber base and move to the Caribbean, " says Rapp.
OnLive's getting Driver: San Francisco, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, FEAR 3, Duke Nukem Forever and Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, to name a few, and it's actually planning a Netflix-like flat rate pricing plan for back-catalog and indie games as well.
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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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There's regulatory models in Europe where the high-capacity networks just won't be built because they've set sort of equalization in terms of the sublease rate, the wholesale pricing rate that means you're just not gonna do a high-definition interactive network.
While our base case scenario envisions pricing declines to level off due to the growth of the smartphone segment that should offset the downward pricing pressures, we assess the downside risk here in the event that the current rate of pricing declines continue into the future.
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That suggests the 40% recovery rate typically used in CDS pricing may be too high.
However, in developed markets, the company saw a significant improvement in pricing, and as Facebook matures, the overall growth rate will slow and the impact of the ad pricing change will be more visible on overall revenue growth.
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The European Central Bank (ECB) certainly remains on tenterhooks with about 30% of futures dealers pricing in a refi-rate (refinancing rate) cut on Thursday.
Also, we've got to look at freeing up pricing controls, with interest-rate deregulation.
But Corso says the market is pricing in an implied cumulative default rate of 60% over the coming five years.
According to the methodology employed by certain Wall Street analysts, the high yield bond market is currently pricing in an 8% default rate.
The good news was, employee pricing drove the Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate for U.S. auto sales to a record exceeding 20 million in July 2005.
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Supply of rough diamonds, meanwhile, will grow by an average annual rate of 2.5%, suggesting that pricing will remain solid.
Will they continue to hold their pricing and be content with the growth rate they experienced in the early days of wireless voice?
The futures market was pricing in some chance of an interest-rate hike before the year is out.
The fact that their benchmark rates are well below their minimum payout has been viewed as a negative and thus, the market is pricing them to provide yields comparable to fixed rate issues.
Over 100 games, including top titles released the same second as consoles and PCs, available for great deals under a range of pricing plans, including OnLive's flat-rate PlayPack bundle with over 70 games, rentals and full purchases.
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In most cases, customers have migrated to providers who offer flat-pricing rates (though the provider still faces the MHP rate).
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We expect pricing declines to continue in the future, though at a slower rate.
Newspapers, for example, by and large kept their advertising rate cards intact during recessions, giving up revenue in the short term in order to preserve their pricing once the recovery came.
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