Seem like the tittle and most comment are bias. They both focus on fact public does not know price righ away before negotation took place.
One should paint oneself into a corner right away and stop negotiating, other party would have saw them comming fom mille's away.

Real Story is: we ill spend little on "now" replacement and re-decide the whole thing, wht in or mendate. There is no real announcment in reality, other then feeding new's. 
Usualy, those empty new's serve to hide an upopular real news. Wonder which it was today.