Comcast CEO Brian Roberts says his company, which has been slow to enter the telephony market, is now ready to move aggressively into the field, offering customers a bundle that includes video, Net
access, and calling services. In doing so, Comcast will be joining its big cable competitors, including Time Warner, in a trend consumers seem to find appealing. Packaging TV, Internet, and phone
into a $90-$100-a-month bill is clearly the wave of the future. Comcast's bundle in Boston costs customers $90 a month, and it has been quite successful, Roberts told a group of industry analysts in
Phoenix. Roberts also said this week that in an effort to prod basic-cable customers to upgrade to digital services, Comcast would provide digital set-top boxes preloaded with 100 movies for free, or
possibly a buck a month. About 60 percent of Comcast's customers are still on analog service.
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