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Tereza Pultarova

Major telescope makers hit by class action lawsuit over alleged price fixing

A silhouette of a person looking into a telescope under starry skies.

Skywatchers who purchased telescopes from leading suppliers may be entitled to a payment from a $32 million class action settlement.

The settlement is a result of a lengthy legal saga involving telescope manufacturers controlled by Chinese family firms Synta Technologies and Ningbo Sunny, which, according to allegations in available documents, actively conspired to monopolize and divide up the U.S. amateur telescope market to fix prices and push out competitors.

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