In the US, AT&T Has Made a Practice of Offering Residential Customers

question 23

Multiple Choice

In the U.S., AT&T has made a practice of offering residential customers a one low- rate long distance telephone service, but only to those that ask for it or to those that have switched or threaten to switch long- distance carriers. Under the Canadian Competition Act this would be called

• A) predatory pricing.
• B) resale price maintenance.
• C) discriminatory pricing.
• D) regional price discrimination.
• E) none of the above

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