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by votepaunchy 3108 days ago
You don’t even need to ban bundling. Just require that customers be permitted to decline bundled services and receive the full-price discount.
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What's the full price when the product is only sold in the bundle?
A price in line with what it costs them to provide that service. If they price it lower than that it is illegal dumping.
I'm not sure that would be feasible; in a case like this, doing a reverse "hollywood accounting" would be easy. The bandwidth is "free", since it runs on their existing network. The content is "free", since it's included in their TV licensing. What can you impute just to the service? A bit of storage and a few hours of software development, divided by all their customers. That's probably about ten cents or so.
"Bundled content has no cash value if declined."
So, effectively the same thing, but slightly less pro-consumer?