As part of the DirecTV deal, AT&T is willing to provide an Internet-only product to consumers who don't want to buy a more traditional television bundle, according to two people familiar with the matter.
OnCue, as envisioned by Intel, would take the traditional cable television bundle and make it more consumer-friendly by transmitting it via the Internet.
However, once NI gets 100% ownership of BSkyB, it will simply add its newspaper titles to the subscription television bundle to be received online.
He said he did not foresee any immediate existential threats to the cable television bundle, despite occasional calls for à la carte pricing and the growth of on-demand libraries like Netflix.
Susan Crawford, a professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and the author of "Captive Audience," says she thinks television bundles will be with us for a while — six to eight years — regardless of what the consumer wants.
Unlike the music business, television bundling -- of hundreds of networks beamed into homes via a cable company -- makes sense for everyone concerned.
The move is designed to strengthen Vodafone's hand by offering more "triple play" combined telephone, internet and television bundles.
But since the cable companies and media companies have consolidated powers, transforming into a powerful oligopoly, free broadcast television is bundled for a price into your cable package.
The personal mobile services include mobile services, international phone, broadband internet, internet protocol television (IPTV), bundle, media distribution service, and cloud.
