Cable company NTL has announced it will bundle a free 36 channel TV package in with its £16.50 a month phone package. The move means NTL won't be following Carphone Warehouse, Sky and Orange in offering free broadband - although with most of these deals you seem to end up paying a similar amount, they just change the thing you're paying for and the thing that's free. Though some see the new 'free TV with your phone' package as an attempt by NTL to take on Freeview.
NTL also revealed details of its much talked about 'quad play' package, that gives you phone, telly, internet and a mobile line for £40 a month - a package made possible by NTL's merger-come-takeover with/of Virgin Mobile.