Andre Yoskowitz
15 Jun 2007 13:40
Thanks to a new service called MusicStation, European customers will be able to download an unlimited amount of music to their mobile phones.
MusicStation launched in Sweden on Tuesday, and it will hit major markets in the rest of Europe, as well as Asia and Africa over the next few months. The company says it has agreements with 30 operators and hopes to serve over 100 million phones within the year.
North American plans for the service were not specified at all during the announcement.
The service would be like a Napster of sorts, which instead of charging per song, instead there would be a weekly charge of 2.99 euros for unlimited downloads. Your only limitation is the amount of memory your mobile phone has.
The company also said that eventually the tracks would be able to be transferred to your PC, but that part of the service was not currently available.
"MusicStation's launch today heralds the beginning of the next generation of mobile music," Rob Lewis said, CEO of the service's parent company Omnifone.
Over 1 million tracks would be offered by the service, including music from the "Big 4", Universal Music, Sony BMG, Warner Music, and EMI.
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