Just think about how long it took cable companies to get customers to bundle services.
They have to learn how to bundle those services into appealing packages and see both the end user and the digital service provider as customers.
When we come out the other side, we'll have the choice of our telephone company versus our cable-television company for the same big bundle of services.
"They are gearing up to fight new competitors, the cable-television industry, for the complete bundle of services, including telephone, television, wireless and Internet, " said independent telecom analyst Jeff Kagan.
So far as consumers are concerned, on the other hand, the Internet is largely a bundle of services that duplicates and partially substitutes for others that already existed: television, snail-mail, newspapers, and so forth.
The states concede DSL deserves equal treatment with cable access, but worry that if the new exemption is worded too broadly, providers will be able to bundle other services with access and claim the whole expensive package is tax free.
With mobile data usage on the rise, driven by the proliferation of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets and the ongoing transition to high-speed 4G LTE networks, Dish wants to be able to bundle wireless services with its pay-TV and broadband services in order to better serve customers.
Like Ivie, fledgling entrepreneurs can save a bundle by selling services rather than products.
Resellers at this conference like the Office 365 Open licensing program because it allows them to direct-bill customers for use of the suite, in addition to paying for the bundle of their services.
Service providers must embrace cloud services and bundle them into their enterprise and small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) solutions.
So, here was a move that Apple made for strategic reasons, to further their bundle of goods and services, that is not working out so well.
Custodians have led public pensions to believe that bundled fees result in lower costs for the package of services included within the bundle.
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Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) bundle together hardware and professional consulting services to offer customized solutions to their customers around the world.
When Sprint makes Office 365 available, it plans to bundle it with value-added services to create solutions that further increase productivity and unleash the power of today's mobile workforce.
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The bundle includes both award-winning satellite services and can now be purchased from DIRECTV or, for the first time, from ViaSat.
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Having extraordinary products and services and the ability to bundle them (in real time) in ways that individual customers will find irresistible further enhances your brand and share of the sales wallet.
At the recent unveiling of a tablet computer by Jeff Bezos of Amazon, whose company is doing the best job of following Apple's lead in combining hardware, software, content and services in an easy-to-use bundle, there were several swipes at Apple.
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They'll go on to bundle in content, their Microsoft Network, financial transactions, travel services, everything.
The big idea here is to offer packages that bundle together cable TV, cable Internet, VoIP, and wireless services and offer them to subscribers at a price that would be less than signing up for each service individually.
For example, an ACO could bundle a certain episode of care (EOC), such as the services required to manage a patient receiving a heart transplant, and then create a financial instrument based on profits associated with providing that particular set of care.
Many traditional telecoms firms are upgrading their lines to offer the same services and may also be in a position to add mobile telephony to the bundle.
Further, as telcos continue with the planned roll-out of their video services, they have been weaning away satellite customers, more worryingly, from synthetic bundle households.
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Here are four key segments of the health care industry poised to take advantage of new benefits under the Affordable Care Act as well as rules and regulations that will bundle payments to medical care providers, rewarding those who provide higher quality medical treatment and lower costs health services.
In addition, many services from the big data firms--Lipper and Morningstar--that until recently cost a bundle are now free on the Web.
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