One problem with all these companies bundling products together into packages. Is that it masks the cost of the individual service and cuts down consumer choice. If, as I expect, in the near future you will be forced to take more than one service from a provider "a bundle" and all other providers do the same. You can't then take one service, say telephone from one provider, tv from another, broadband from another and mobile from someone else.
Its very clear to me, at least, that within a year or we are going to end up with four or five companies offering bundled products. There won't be mobile phone companies, fixed line telecom companies, broadband companies etc. It'll just be Sky, BT, ntl and one or two others. And you won't be able to pick and mix between them, becuase they bundle their packages far cheaper than their indivdual products, making purchasing diffrent products from diffrent companies hideously exspensive. So, you'll be locked into choosing one provider for all your telecom/broadband/tv needs.
The future, you read it here first....
