The Battle of the Bundles

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, December, 2006 | by Miriam Hill

Vik Khanna was looking for a way out. After 13 years as a customer of Philadelphia's Comcast Corp., he thought the service was "good but not great." Occasional Internet outages interrupted his work and forced him to spend valuable time on the phone getting vague answers from Comcast technicians about when service would be restored.

So when he saw Verizon Communications Inc. installing fiber-optic lines that would bring a new choice for TV and high-speed Internet service to his Ellicott City, Md., home, he switched. Ellicott City is a prime battlefront in what is becoming known as "The Battle for the Bundle." As Comcast and other cable companies start packaging phone service with their TV and Internet hookups, Verizon and AT&T Inc. are fighting back with their own bundles of...