Dell sued Hitachi, Sharp for fixing price and overcharging

On March 15, 2010, in News, by rohit
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In a recent technology war among all the leading brands of computer and gadget world, Dell Inc. sued Hitachi Ltd., Sharp Corp. and other three manufacturers of LCDs alleging that they conspired of making the prices fix and then overcharging for their respective products.

Some of the companies in U.S. have already paid fines for being guilty in price-fixing and selling the products at artificially inflated prices to Dell in 1996.

In the federal court in San Francisco Dell filed a complaint recently against some of the companies alleging antitrust and unfair-competition.

The two big companies, Sharp and Hitachi, had admitted that they targeted Dell and overcharged for the panels plea agreements. Sharp is the largest maker of LCDs of Japan and Hitachi is also a giant of Japan that makes household appliances, nuclear reactors and hard-disk drives. Sharp is based in Osaka and Hitachi is Tokyo based in Japan. In 2008 Sharp agreed to pay amount of $120 million as fines and Hitachi agreed to for $31 million in 2009.

In the lawsuit Dell is seeking for triple damages. The company, based in Round Rock, Texas, trails Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) and Acer Inc. in the market of personal computers.

However, the spokesman of Sharp Chris Loncto and the spokeswomen of Hitachi Lauren Garvey have not officially given any comment on this issue.

Similarly, in federal court in San Francisco, the largest mobile maker of the world Nokia Oyj has also filed a lawsuit against LCD makers. AT&T Inc. has even done the same to the manufacturers.
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The case of Dell is Dell v Sharp, 10-01064, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (San Francisco).

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Number of connections per person will increase in 3G tablets says Dell head

On March 4, 2010, in Uncategorized, by rohit
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AT&T is preferring the tablets using 3G as it can sell more than one connections to a single customer says Neeraj Choubey, head of Dell’s Mini program.
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Randall Stephenson, CEO of AT&T commented something interesting at the investor conference in regard to the Apple’s products. According to him, the iPhone of Apple is an important part in their lineup. He says that the iPad of Apple will mainly be a “WiFi driven product”. The carrier is currently offering 3G service contract in the United States for the 3G-enabled WiFi.

In the investor conference replying to a question about the Apple iPad, Randall Stephenson said that he did not think too many new 3G subscriptions can be achieved with it because end consumers would prefer using it with WiFi. Moreover, it will be a month-by-month subscription for iPad from the AT&T, which is rare from the carrier as it usually prefer looking customers with two-year service agreements offering them subsidized and locked phones.

With the earlier idea of selling two-three connections to same customer, Neeraj Choubey said that Dell was in negotiation with AT&T to get bundled 3G on the new and first table from Dell, the Mini 5, and also on all other tablet phones being made in the Dell house.

There has been exclusivity contract by AT&T in the United States for the iPhones. However, Randall Stephenon did not disclosed as of now the length of this exclusivity deal with the Apple’s. Though he did not answer directly but he said that according to him the iPhone as “an important part” of the carrier’s phone offerings “for quite some period of time”.

Stephension, when asked about bandwidth demands, replied that in the iPhone-heavy areas such as New York City and San Francisco the network is improving to accommodate high smartphone data usage.

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