A lot can change in a year, especially in the hyper-competitive telecom industry, which has witnessed severe disruption and has seen operators publicly spar against each other and with the sector regulator, since Reliance Jio’s entry in September 2016. In yet another cruel twist of fate, incumbent telcos Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea, which had […]
Amazon Prime Day is still over a month away, though that doesn’t meant we can’t find torpedo deals right now. Walmart has a 128GB Apple iPad on sale for $329 – that’s a $100 discount, and a lowest cost we’ve seen for a latest indication tablet. The 2018 iPad facilities a 9.7-inch Retina arrangement and […]
@Tyler_Wildman joked: “Debating whether to pay roughly two months of my mortgage or use the same money to buy a F***ING MONITOR STAND FROM APPLE WHAT THE F**K.” And @MOTE_Games said: “If Apple wants to sell me a stand for $US999 it damn better be able to stop time or something.” Admittedly, the stand itself […]
Customers aren’t happy with their telcos’ wide area networking (WAN) services, but the new wave of SD-WAN companies has room to grow as well, according to the latest study. SD-WAN provider Cato Networks‘ “Telcos and the Future of the WAN in 2019,” is chock full of results that don’t look good for the big telecommunications […]
A divided Supreme Court ruled Monday morning that iPhone users can sue Apple for allegedly abusing its control over iPhone app sales to inflate the price of those ubiquitous nuggets of software. In doing so, however, the justices left open the vexing question of how to calculate the damage Apple inflicted on its customers. That […]
BENGALURU: Apple CEO Tim Cook said a revised pricing strategy has led to better sales in India. “We have made some adjustments in India and we’ve seen preliminarily some better results there. Everything that we do does advise everything we do in the future, so we try to learn the best we can and fold […]
Sim-free and contract pricing for the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Max has ‘leaked’ online, despite the handsets not actually existing. The ‘news’ broke via Evad3rs on Tuesday, which claimed to have contract and sim-free pricing for the two new iPhones from AT&T, Verizon, Spring and T Mobile. Specifically the leak said Apple will offer the […]
Reports surfaced last year that Google was working on midrange Pixel phones, dubbed “Lite” models at the time but now expected to be called the Pixel 3a and 3a XL. In shifting its focus back down to midrange price points, Google is implicitly acknowledging that its premium pricing strategy has not worked well. Apple has been raising […]
The Competition Commission recently released a provisional report on its Data Services Market Inquiry, which is aimed at understanding the reasons behind high mobile data prices in South Africa. In its preliminary findings, the commission said international benchmarking confirmed that South African data prices are high – particularly for mobile prepaid data. It also found […]
LONDON, April 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — A study carried out by Minderest shows large differences in price when purchasing a new Smartphone from a range of online retailers. 127 cell-phones in stock at Amazon and Google Shopping were analysed on April 15th, simulating what a consumer would find looking for a cellphone online. Sellers captured via […]
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This Week in Pricing > 6/22/19
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MTA And City Move Forward On Congestion Pricing | Gothamist
The MTA and the city’s Department of Transportation (DOT) are moving forward with preparations for implementing congestion pricing. For now, that means issuing a “Memorandum of Understanding” (MOU) on what the next steps are to get the program up and running. This is so both agencies are on the same page when it comes to […]
Harnessing Big Data For Better Pricing Results | Professional Pricing Society
Pricing strategies, like big data, can be key to improving profits in business. According to a study conducted by McKinsey & Company, even a 1 percent price increase can translate into an 8.7 percent boost in operating profits (assuming no loss of volume). However, companies continue to fail to price their products and services appropriately, […]
Alcohol sales in Scotland fall to all-time low in 2018 | HeraldScotland
ALCOHOL sales in Scotland fell to an all-time low in the year that minimum pricing came into force. The latest data, for 2018, reveals that adults in Scotland are now consuming less alcohol than they have since records began in 1994. Teenagers are also less likely than ever to have tried alcohol, with the percentage […]
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