Sentence examples for monopolistic customer from inspiring English sources

I imagined that I could respond to the monopolistic customer service of local phone companies the same way I would react to such treatment by a restaurant or a shoe store and take my business elsewhere.

Hang Up AT & T's enforcement of antiquated, monopolistic customer service attitudes, ("No, I Don't Accept the Charges"), is a significant deterrent to Michael Armstrong's attempts to revitalize its business.

The bad news is that, in today's world, dominated by too-big-to-fail banks and monopolistic mega-mergers, customer service isn't getting any better.

Now, warning that this lack of competition at the retail level could produce wholesale price problems such as occurred in California, legislators and regulators propose to further distort the competitive market by offering $100 payments, funded by a surcharge on still monopolistic prices, to persuade customers to switch to another supplier.

In practice, container lease pricing problem is different from the consumer product pricing in consideration of the fair value of container, limited customer types and monopolistic supply market.

Algorithms are proprietary though, and monopolistic within their context (a customer can't select the algorithm they want to use to assess their credit, for instance).

Though they have risen faster of late, prices in Britain are still lower than on the continent, where inefficient and mainly monopolistic firms dictate terms to long-suffering customers.

We analyze the interaction between a monopolistic seller and a continuum of identical customers of a single product when some of them can form a buyer group and the seller can implement a key account management (KAM) program to deal with these customers, leaving those that purchase on an independent basis to be served through posted prices.

This is the first time that monopolistic cable companies have been required to offer their customers a choice.

Last month, I became a customer of Time Warner Cable, New York's favorite quasi-monopolistic provider of patchy broadband that's worse than the internet in Bucharest.

Arizona has some of the best solar exposure in the world, but it allows monopolistic utilities to impose a regressive surcharge on all customers to subsidize roof-panel installation by the well-heeled ones.