bundling

Cricket Wireless’s All-You-Can-Eat Music Plan Stumbles on Way to the Buffet

Ina Fried in Mobile on January 6, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

The prepaid cellular service company says that it is taking a little longer to launch its Muve music server as it works to iron out some software bugs. Cricket still hopes to launch in Las Vegas later this month and in nine additional markets in February with a goal of expanding to all its cities by the spring.

Little-Known Cricket Wireless Tries a New Take on Subscription Music

Ina Fried in Mobile on December 19, 2010 at 9:00 pm PT

Bundling a music subscription into other goods and services has been tried a lot, mostly without success. However, Cricket Wireless is hoping to succeed where many others have failed. It’s launching a service next month that includes music downloads in the cost of prepaid cellphone service. For $55 a month, customers get unlimited text, talk and Web, plus all the music they can cram onto the phone.

Spotify Promises a TV Service (in Sweden, of Course)

Peter Kafka in Media on October 8, 2009 at 5:15 am PT

Spotify, the streaming music service Americans love talking about but can’t actually use, has given us even more to chat about: The company now promises to roll out some sort of TV service…some day. Where? In Sweden, of course, which is where Spotify started, and which acts as a sort of test lab/best-case-scenario provider for the service.

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Comcast Shares Jump Ahead of Earnings Tomorrow A.M.

Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily in News on October 28, 2008 at 3:32 pm PT

Comcast’s earnings get announced before tomorrow’s opening bell, but the company has a couple of things going for it that might be helping analysts predict what those numbers will look like. First, 70 percent of consumers prefer bundling, and currently only cable can offer it. Second, even as we head into a recession, broadband and video are considered “no more discretionary for most families than running water.”