P Chidambaram (Minister of Finance) has lost his damn mind! This is the lowest form of trading, and thus has a very Indian tinge to it.
Price something valuable and needed (to stay in the game) at a high-end price...just high-end enough for the big players or anyone who REALLY needs it, to scrape together whatever they can to make the payment, and then jack the price up right quick days before the deal's about to go down. By now, the carriers will have put several game plans in motion (ads, phones, contracts) so it would be a "loss of face" to back down.
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P Chidambaram (Minister of Finance) has lost his damn mind! This is the lowest form of trading, and thus has a very Indian tinge to it.
Price something valuable and needed (to stay in the game) at a high-end price...just high-end enough for the big players or anyone who REALLY needs it, to scrape together whatever they can to make the payment, and then jack the price up right quick days before the deal's about to go down. By now, the carriers will have put several game plans in motion (ads, phones, contracts) so it would be a "loss of face" to back down.
I'm gonna follow this and see how it ends up.