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[–] Willy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

For me, tv,internet,phone, cellphone are all the same bill. There is broadcast tv near where I live, but it’s very limited and is duplicated by the cable company who does internet etc so it’s not used by many since it’s generally part of the bundle you have to get for the basics.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Usually it was the ISP-companies here as well.. Or phone companies also worked with those TV-channel companies, so you might get some through them.

But even now, when I have only my mobile connection and my Internet in my apartment, they're separate bills. From the same company, but separate bills.

There has been those bundles marketed here as well with all sorts of channels and nowadays cloud storage etc. But the regulations make it so that you can't force a bundle on anyone.

Much like a few years ago a law passed that makes this a more physical example: you can't "bundle" beers anymore in the sense that yes of course you still can buy 6-packs and 12-packs and 24-packs, but the largest pack can't be relatively cheaper than buying a single can, so as not to encourage "saving money" by buying more alcohol at once.

Obviously the way the law got worded means the shops can still price the 6-packs and 8-packs differently, as long as a single can is the same price as the largest pack divided by number of beers in largest pack.

Also it's forbidden to forbid customers from breaking multipacks. This concerns beverages at least.

So, many people don't know it, but usually if you're in a supermarket and buying like a sixpack of beer, you'll get it cheaper if you tear one of them out and put it separately, so they'll have to beep six X 1can, which can be several euros cheaper than buying it with the container intact and them beeping it as one product.

So it's the same with bundles on services.

But also I don't know much about them as when I lived in a house I didn't pay the bills and we never used to have PPV at least.