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Sprint To Launch OTA Downloads Monday
by on 28. Oct, 2005 in Mobile Operators
MocoNews points to an article sayingSprint’s full-track download service will launch Monday. There’s two important points, really: – Dual delivery to both mobile phone and PC – $2.50 per track. One of those will be a bigger determinant of its success (or failure) than the other. Any guesses as to which one? —–>Follow us on [...]
Oasis Next For The Exclusive Treatment
by on 18. Oct, 2005 in Mobile Operators
Like Madonna and Robbie Williams before, now Oasis will have 6 songs and videos exclusively bundled on a 512-megabyte SD card with the Toshiba 803 phone Vodafone is releasing in Europe this month. I still don’t think these types of exclusive arrangements are a very big deal — inevitably the content will end up on [...]
New Madonna Single On Mobile First
by on 11. Oct, 2005 in Mobile Operators
Orange users will have “exclusive” access to Madonna’s latest single, “Hung Up”, a week before its general release as part of France Telecom’s deal with Warner Music announced earlier this year. This comes on the heels of T-Mobile putting an exclusive Robbie Williams track on the Sony Ericsson W800i (the Walkman phone) it sells in [...]
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Sprint Bulks Up Streaming
by on 19. Sep, 2005 in Mobile Operators, Services
A week after launching its streaming channels from Sirius, Sprint now says it’s teamed up with RealNetworks to offer another streaming service with “five music channels, podcasts, music news and videos.” Is anybody using any of these? Would be nice to hear your experiences with them. —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
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Verizon’s Pre-emptive Attack
by on 07. Sep, 2005 in Devices, Mobile Operators
Verizon says people that bought the LG VX8100 handset from it can bring the phone into one of its stores for a firmware upgrade that will allow them to listen to MP3s from a memory card. The phone, which sports external music controls, shipped without an MP3 player for some reason (the logical guess would [...]
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Music Becomes Key Sponsorship Area For UK Carriers
by on 24. Aug, 2005 in Mobile Operators
Mobile operators in the UK are moving their sponsorship spending out of sports and into music, says Dow Jones Newswires. They’re saying sponsorship for sports like football has become too crowded, and music events help them better reach a wide array of young users. —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
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Sprint Nextel Plans Music Service
by on 19. Aug, 2005 in Mobile Operators, Services
Sprint Nextel’s president says the company will launch a “mass market” mobile music download service in time for Christmas. That’s about all he said — exciting, we know. —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
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Robbie Williams in Exclusive T-Mobile Deal
by on 29. Jul, 2005 in Mobile Operators
British pop star Robbie Williams has signed an exclusive 18-month deal with T-Mobile where the operator will offer exclusive content, some of it embedded in handsets it sells. Williams is undoubtedly popular around the world — he’s sold 51 million albums — but are these kinds of exclusive deals what’s really going to make people [...]
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iTunes Phone to Debut In UK Next Month?
by on 11. Jul, 2005 in Devices, Mobile Operators
A report out of the UK says the long-awaited Motorola iTunes phone will make its debut at the V Festival next month. The V Festival is sponsored by Virgin Mobile — so taking its position as an MVNO and its slow uptake of data services, it wouldn’t be a stretch for it to be the [...]
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