Arbitrarily lowering the regulated price of the copper network would kneecap the competitive price umbrella for fiber broadband service thus destroying the economic return on investment case needed to fund the fiber upgrade?
The price distortions in the CMS program are likely to ricochet throughout the health sector, making it difficult if not impossible to find the true competitive price for medical devices in the future, according to Tom Bradley, chief of Medicare cost estimates at the Congressional Budget Office.
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"We believe that our new pricing structure should allow the rental dealer to continue to offer a competitive price to the end consumer, " said the spokesman.
While the evening may be competitive, contestant Price Manford said some of the fun was in spending time with fellow trivia fans who appreciate the amount of effort Mr. Kesner puts into his questions.
While charters may not be the right fit for most business travelers, they work for some because the price can be competitive when the right number of people are heading in the same direction.
For now at least, Michael Ramsay, TiVo's 52-year-old Scottish CEO, is nonchalant about the competitive threat and the price he has paid for creating a new service.
As a more relevant comment, prediction number 5 may be an answer for many of the smaller providers in the industry looking to compete against the established veterans who are in the middle of a competitive price war.
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The price it gets is, in a competitive market, determined by the demand for the service at the price offered, not by how much it costs to provide the service.
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We will pay an unacceptably high price in the competitive global economy in which American business must now prove itself if we continue to lose and under utilize our women knowledge workers.
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Cities that provide a good service at a competitive price will enjoy the economic benefits that come from visitors such as the National Restaurant Association.
But you say that even a moderate carbon tax would not make nuclear power competitive, noting that the price of permits in Europe's emissions-trading scheme implies a social cost of carbon dioxide of euro20 per tonne.
Amazon has figured out the lesson for Blackberry and every other entrant into this incredibly competitive market: Do it right, at the right price, have the product ready to go when released for sale, provide apps and lots of content, and make sure that the hardware and software are supplied at the same time.
The highly anticipated launch of GALAXY S III and upbeat sales of GALAXY Note, along with a more competitive average selling price (ASP) than the previous quarter, have cushioned an on-quarter operating loss brought on by the seasonably weak earnings of businesses in IT Solutions and Telecommunication Systems.
Tommy Gallagher said it would have the practical effect of raising the price of quarried material and put Northern Ireland at a competitive disadvantage to the Republic of Ireland.
Let's let any insurer opt out of state regulation in favor of a federal charter. (I'll bet Allstate, Progressive and Geico would go federal in a heartbeat.) Relieved of 50-state paper-pushing burdens and free to pick off the good risks with price cuts, the federally chartered companies would be a formidable competitive threat.
In a competitive market, the quantity and the price would be set simultaneously by the invisible hand.
That way, in May 2012, the price will quickly get to competitive levels.
That gets the price point down into a competitive range with the downloads.
The biffle marketplace then offers price-competitive vendors a steady flow of purchase orders without any channel conflict, since vendor participation at point-of-sale is anonymous.
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An analytics maturity model will help you determine which can lead to differentiation and competitive advantage and which will be the price of entry.
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Finally, take note of the high price -- and wonder why such a car should be protected from the competitive threat posed by properly built imports.
Wahaha has established its own production plants and processing factories in the major fruit growing areas to ensure the quality of juice products and a competitive retail price.
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"For almost 10 years, the cartelists carried out the most harmful anti-competitive practices, including price fixing, market sharing, customer allocation, capacity and output coordination and exchanges of commercial sensitive information", the commission said.
E85 would also need to be price-competitive with gasoline over the long term.
In a bizarre twist on competitive pricing, high price-tags are the entire point of a piece of Apple hardware.
And the more efficient, the more lightweight we can make those batteries, the easier it is to manufacture those cars at a competitive price.
Solar PV is coming down in price so quickly that as its supporters insist, it will be directly price competitive with coal fired electricity from the grid in the next few years.
The real challenge for Amazon now is just how much further it can reduce costs to control its massive debts - and fund the price cuts it needs to make to stay competitive.
Moreover, CMS chooses as the final price the median among the winning bids, instead of marginal cost, which would drive pricing in a competitive market.
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The strong won has made Hyundai's vehicles less price competitive when compared to their Japanese rivals.
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