There was a monopoly abuse lawsuit against Apple Inc and AT&T Inc's mobile-phone recently!!! Well, many people suspected that iPhone possibly take over the market and it almost did...
Apple secretly made AT&T its exclusive iPhone partner in the US for five years now and the lawsuit includes any iPhone buyer with a two-year AT&T agreement since June 2007 is dampening competition and driving up prices. In order to stop this, AT&T announced that they are going to stop offering its unlimited pricing plan for new subscribers to its mobile data services in order to improve the speed of its network by cutting down on network-clogging downloads. at early in June of 2011. From June 2008, iPhones was in "locking"mode so that they can only be used on AT&T's network.
The lawsuit seeks an control Apple from selling locked iPhones in the U.S. and from determining what iPhone programs people can install.
Monopoly abuse lawsuit against Apple and AT&T
No comments:
Post a Comment