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To: carranza2 who wrote (9926)	4/17/2001 2:50:33 PM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (1) of 196726

There might be certain situations that could be illegal, especially if the effect of certain equipment pricing practices was to force the customer to pay more for a single technology than other customers would pay in return for an agreement to bundle that technology with certain kinds of upgrades to 3G. One could construe 150 percent vendor financing (possibly, but depending on how the agreements are worded) to be a form of bundling, which has already been determined in U.S. courts to be anticompetitive behavior. It should also be noted that the Europeans in general have taken a much stricter view of what constitutes anticompetive behavior than the U.S. Art

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