‘Big Three’ holding line on holiday season prices for home networking gear

Photo of author

Tim Higgins

Digitimes reports that the three leading consumer networking device vendors are holding the line on product prices this holiday season.

D-Link, Linksys and Netgear have mostly kept the price of consumer networking devices—especially 802.11n products—unchanged, instead of resorting to more aggressive pricing to boost sales during the year-end peak season, according to industry sources.

The article said that the companies are still looking for indications of how strong demand will be for holiday buying and said that consumers "may start seeing discount offers from the vendors in early 2008 if sales do not pick up as expected in the following weeks".

Read the full article here.

Related posts

Meraki Shipping Solar Wi-Fi Mesh Node

Meraki has announced the availability of its Meraki Solar WiFi mesh device, self-powered by its own solar panel and solar-charged battery.

D-Link Ends 802.11b Feedback Experiments

D-Link today informed SmallNetBuilder that it has ended D-Link's "feedback" gathering exercise on 802.11b for its DIR-655 and DIR-825 draft 802.11n routers.

Asustek 3G strategy: Intel out, EMP in

Asustek Computer will begin shipping third-generation (3G) smartphones based on Intel's mobile platform to European telecom service providers including Vodafone and O2 in the fourth quarter of this year, but these will be the last Asustek 3G smartphones based on Intel's platform, according to industry sources.

Full Story on TG Daily