Apple, Microsoft, and Adobe Systems have been summoned by Australian lawmakers to explain why consumers pay more for IT products Down Under than in other countries.
The House Committee on Infrastructure and Communications said Monday it wanted the companies to appear before the committee as part of an ongoing probe regarding disparity between prices charged in Australia and in overseas markets.
"The Committee is looking at the impacts of prices charged to Australian consumers for IT products -- Australian consumers often pay much higher prices for hardware and software than people in other countries," the committee said in a statement (PDF) today.
The committee has scheduled a public hearing regarding the matter for March 22 in Canberra.
The action is part of a probe announced last April by the Australian Parliament into why consumers in Australia pay more to download software and other content than their counterparts in other countries. The controversy took on new life when Adobe announced that Australians would be paying several hundred dollars more for its Creative Suite software than their Am... [Read more]
by Steven Musil via CNET
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