The resulting entity would cut costs and could offer customers bundled telecoms packages.
GPU also will provide the fiber-optic network, giving customers bundled voice, data and Internet services.
Media opponents of the BSkyB bid in Britain, including the BBC and The Guardian, had warned that the Murdochs would use control of the network, with its billion-dollar annual profits, to offer customers "bundled" deals tieing discounted newspaper subscriptions to BSkyB contracts, damaging competition.
They also help to explain why, after years of talk that telecoms and television would eventually melt into one industry, reality is catching up with conjecture.Telecoms and television companies everywhere are desperate to sell customers bundles of mobile telephony, fixed lines, broadband and television, rather than individual services.
While hurt by cut rates in long distance, Notebaert has made headway getting customers to bundle local, long-distance and DSL Internet access.
Telephone service provider BellSouth said it would allow its customers to bundle DirecTV digital satellite TV services with their phone service starting in 2004.
Instead of sample-sized products, Honest customers can bundle three full-sized products of their choice for $50 per month.
Both packages also allow customers to bundle in access to HBO NOW for another $15 per month as an option.
Like Apple, Oracle wants to take away complexity for its customers and bundle the entire IT stack neatly together so that it works without hassles and is optimized for Oracle's software.
Now Y Combinator-funded startup Fabricly wants to reverse and improve the model, by crowdsourcing designs and using a voting process to only manufacture pieces that people actually want, all while saving customers a bundle.
