Unbundling

Cable. Comcast. They sell you a bundle: cable TV shows, internet connectivity, telephony. All three for the one "low" price of $187.79 a month. That's the bundle.

So what's unbundling? Taking them a part. Think: a la carte. Like...if you could just buy internet connectivity alone. That'd be an unbundled buy. Lots of things get bundled; check out your next insurance bill. It probably has life, home, health, auto, and whatever other weird things you're into. By bundling, the insurance company saves a fair amount of dough in evaluating and processing you, and they pass along the savings to the customer. If you were to unbundle so that you bought a la carte life insurance and then a la carte motorcycle insurance and then a la carte Stoogeification insurance...it'd likely cost a ton more. Whoop whoop whoop.