Article: eCommerce Barriers Will Cost Consumers $32 Billion In 2002 and $200 Billion Over Next 5 Years; Report Finds that Anticompetitive Efforts by Middlemen Could Threaten the Future of eCommerce.

Article: FTC workshop on internet competition. (Noted In The Federal ...
The Food Institute Report;  July 29, 2002 ;     610 words ... ... INTERNET COMPETITION: The Federal Trade Commission will hold a public workshop, Oct. 8-10, on "Possible Anticompetitive Efforts to Restrict Competition on the Internet." The workshop will focus on how certain state regulation may have ...

Article: ON THE NET ... WITH UPI
United Press International;  October 8, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... barriers to eCommerce will cost consumers $32.6 billion this ... of automobiles will cost consumers nearly $25 billion ... just four markets, the anticompetitive efforts of these middlemen could cost consumers $200 billion over the ...

Article: On the Net ... with UPI.
United Press International;  October 8, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... barriers to eCommerce will cost consumers $32.6 billion this ... of automobiles will cost consumers nearly $25 billion ... just four markets, the anticompetitive efforts of these middlemen could cost consumers $200 billion over the ...

Article: Lending Fees Cost Consumers Money
AP Online;  January 8, 2002 ;     700+ words ...00-00-0000 Title: Lending Fees Cost Consumers Money [image omitted] WASHINGTON (AP) _ Beatrice Hiers ... often not disclosed to borrowers, can be abusive and cost consumers thousands of dollars, Sen. Paul Sarbanes, D-Md ...

Article: Patent extension could cost consumers billions of ...
Chicago Defender;  June 29, 2000 ;     668 words ...Patent extension could cost consumers billions of dollars Pointing to the rising cost of prescription ... for Schering-Plough's Claritin allergy medicine could cost consumers up to $7 billion over its three-year extension, Durbin ...

Article: S KOREAN TELECOM CARTEL COST CONSUMERS US$908 MLN ...
AsiaPulse News;  September 15, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... fixed-line telecom service providers is estimated to have cost consumers more than 932 billion won (US$908 million) in damages ... Onse Telecom Co. for their international lines may have cost consumers 76 billion won, while the bill for long distance domestic ...

Article: Fed: Lifting MRET would cost consumers too much: ...
AAP General News (Australia);  June 15, 2004 ;     418 words ... ... News (Australia) 06-15-2004 Fed: Lifting MRET would cost consumers too much: Kemp CANBERRA, June 15 AAP - The federal government ... Mandatory Renewable Energy Target (MRET) because it would cost consumers too much. A review headed by former coalition senator Grant ...