{"id":1423,"date":"2009-06-17T11:55:40","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T15:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2009-06-17T12:42:23","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T16:42:23","slug":"text-messaging-fee-hikes-antitrust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/06\/17\/text-messaging-fee-hikes-antitrust\/","title":{"rendered":"Text-messaging fee hikes antitrust?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1454\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/06\/060123_blackberry_hmed_8a_hmedium.jpg\" alt=\"060123_blackberry_hmed_8a_hmedium\" width=\"221\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/06\/060123_blackberry_hmed_8a_hmedium.jpg 368w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/06\/060123_blackberry_hmed_8a_hmedium-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/>Federal investigators are being asked if there&#8217;s an <a title=\"antitrust problem\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-texting-rates17-2009jun17,0,7157342.story\" target=\"_blank\">antitrust problem <\/a>with a 100% jump in some text-messaging charges by the four companies that control most of the market &#8212; Verizon, AT&amp;T, Sprint Nextel, and T-Mobile.\u00a0 School of Law Professor <a title=\"Keith Hylton\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/faculty\/profiles\/bios\/full-time\/hylton_k.html\" target=\"_blank\">Keith Hylton<\/a>, an expert in antitrust law, says it might look suspicious, &#8220;but the law requires proof of conspiracy, not merely parallel conduct.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Contact Keith Hylton, 617-353-8959, <a href=\"mailto:knhylton@bu.edu\">knhylton@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal investigators are being asked if there&#8217;s an antitrust problem with a 100% jump in some text-messaging charges by the four companies that control most of the market &#8212; Verizon, AT&amp;T, Sprint Nextel, and T-Mobile.\u00a0 School of Law Professor Keith Hylton, an expert in antitrust law, says it might look suspicious, &#8220;but the law requires [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[637,1289,1290,1288,825],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1437,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions\/1437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}