User User name Password  
   
Sunday 29.11.2009 / 04:28 PM
Search AfterDawn.com:        In English   Suomeksi   På svenska
afterdawn.com > news > t-mobile jumps into online music biz
Show topics
News
News

T-Mobile jumps into online music biz

28 June 2004 14:52 by Petteri "dRD" Pyyny | 1 comment

T-Mobile jumps into online music biz One of the world's largest mobile phone operators, German T-Mobile, announced today that it will launch its own legal online music store, aimed to mobile phone users. T-Mobile's service will launch on next week in five countries: the UK, Germany, Czech, Austria and the Netherlands. The nag? Service requires a specific phone that supports T-Mobile's "Ear Phones" technology and the company will start selling such handsets on next week's Monday.

It is not clear which company or companies have created the handsets -- and whether consumers are willing to change their Nokias and Samsungs to a handset that offers a possibility to pay for downloaded music. Also, the service currently only offers a catalog of 500 "mixes" that are limited to 90 or 120 seconds in length. However, T-Mobile promises that over 250,000 tracks will be available in "CD-quality" (I think we've heard that term before, haven't we?) format by Christmas. Also, the tracks will cost either €1.50 or £1.50 (obviously the higher price, £1.50, is only for British consumers..) and they can't be transferred to PCs or "real" digital audio players.

T-Mobile has licensing deals with three out of five major record labels; with Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music.

Source: Reuters

Permalink to this article

Get AfterDawn's news to your favourite feed reader! Share this story with your friends!
 

 
Related articles:

  • Vodafone introduces Vodafone live! Music service (22 March 2004)
  •  

    « Previous news article
    Official UK download chart goes live in September
    Next news article »
    Helix Player goes GPL
     Post your comment
    Discuss this article! 
    Ghostdog (Senior Member) 30 June 2004 9:45 Send private message to this user   
    Well good luck...
     Post your comment
     

    Subscribe to our newsfeed

    Get the latest headlines delivered directly to your favourite RSS reader or content aggregation service by using the links below.

    AfterDawn.com: News - RSS feed
    Add to Google
    Add to My Yahoo!
    Add to MyMSN

    Search for headlines

    Search through our news archive.

    Last week's most popular software downloads

    Digital video: AfterDawn.com | AfterDawn Forums
    Music: MP3Lizard.com
    Gaming: Blasteroids.com | Blasteroids Forums | Compare game prices
    Software: Software downloads
    Blogs: User profile pages
    RSS feeds: AfterDawn.com News | Software updates | AfterDawn Forums
    International: AfterDawn in Finnish | AfterDawn in Swedish | download.fi
    Navigate: Search | Site map
    About us: About AfterDawn Ltd | Advertise on our sites | Rules, Restrictions, Legal disclaimer & Privacy policy
    Contact us: Send feedback | Contact our media sales team
     
      © 1999-2009 by AfterDawn Ltd.