Bundled services relationships where a single firm provides asset allocation, manager selection, performance reporting, custody and trading are fraught with dangers.
DirecTV intends to add 3 new satellites over the next few years and could consider acquiring local player GVT in order to offer bundled services.
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In order to increase profitability, airlines now charge separately for many previously bundled services such as checking baggage, providing seats with leg room, eating meals on-board, etc.
"If the strategy is to build bundled services, then yes, they should get rid of the Cingular name, " says Karl Barnhart, managing director at CoreBrand, a marketing communications company that measures brand value.
Cable, satellite and now fiber-optic TV have long-since outpaced the over-the-air broadcasters in innovation, giving nearly all Americans the option of hundreds of channels of diverse content, on-demand movies and other programming, time-shifting, interactive features and bundled services.
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Even last year, executives considered the tactic of charging for some traditionally bundled debit services.
But by next quarter, he expects to introduce home products that he calls "Internet appliances" and small-business computers bundled with services delivered over the Internet.
It would need to resell wireless service from one of its competitors--Qwest currently has a deal with Sprint (nyse: FON - news - people )-- in order to offer the sort of bundled telecommunications services that are increasingly popular with consumers.
More specifically, it's seeking to banish "a significant obstacle to consumer choice and competition in the market for bundled communications services" by allowing disconnect orders from the new provider (read: Verizon) to take the place of, you know, the customer calling up their carrier and shutting things down.
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Kupervas realized that despite the services bundled with the phone, the device needed more.
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To compete with such pricing pressure, Marshalls has also bundled in technical services including expertise such as market-leading specification, technical and regulatory advice.
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All of these services are bundled together for a monthly fee.
The only explanation for the overcharges and abuses related to these services is the bundled fee custodial relationship into which pensions have been steered.
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"For most consumers, traditional broadcast media programming is now bundled with cable or satellite services, " he said, but the Federal Communications Commission's authority extends only to over-the-air television and radio content.
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Europe's former monopolies have been keen to expand their mobile operations not only to boost revenue but also to allow them to offer bundled fixed, mobile and broadband services.
In his own mind, Mr Lee is taking on the stuffy, cosy world of investment bankers, who intimidate clients with jargon, and who offer them a bunch of services that are awkwardly bundled and sloppily priced.
The GAO report notes that Medicare pays for certain dialysis services under a type of bundled rate, called a composite rate.
Many of those bundled providers will also provide investment advisory services as part of the package without formally accepting fiduciary liability for their investment research, recommendations, and ratings.
Price-sensitive health services might also be interested in bundled deals for the broad selection of cancer and cardiovascular pills that Roche now controls.
The direct mail industry saw this as an opportunity to innovate and get better returns for their clients, so they bundled Google Remarketing in with standard direct mail services like postcards.
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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Viewpoint Media Player is an advertising media player that is often bundled with downloads of popular software such as messaging or other services.
But under the bundled payment system, providers get the same payment for providing dialysis services, whether they provide ESAs or not.
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