Bundled Discounts – Good For Competition?
Posted 06/10/09
The Supreme Court’s decision in Pacific Bell Telephone Co. v. linkLine Communications, Inc., 129 S.Ct. 1109 (2009), suggests that the Court will apply predatory pricing analysis to all antitrust claims with an aspect of low pricing.
So it follows that bundled-discounting claims would likely receive the same treatment from the Court that price squeeze claims did. A bundled discount is where a firm grants a...