An Example of Vertical Foreclosure Is When a Firm

question 58

Multiple Choice

An example of vertical foreclosure is when a firm:

• A) temporarily prices below its marginal cost to close competitors out of the market.
• B) merges with a rival firm with the intention of eliminating the rival firm's product from the market.
• C) that controls an essential upstream input refuses to sell to other downstream firms that need the input.
• D) merges with a rival firm with the intention of eliminating the rival firm's product from the market and that controls an essential upstream input refuses to sell to other downstream firms that need the input.

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Definitions:

SSID

Service Set Identifier, a unique name given to a wireless network, allowing devices to connect to the intended network among multiple overlapping networks.

Ping Command

A diagnostic utility in networking that tests the reachability of a host on an Internet Protocol (IP) network and measures the round-trip time for messages sent from the original host.

IEEE 802.11n

A wireless networking standard that improves network throughput over the two previous standards—802.11a and 802.11g.

802.11ac

An IEEE wireless standard that uses the 5 GHz range and supports speeds up to 4.9 Gb/s.