Vodafone: unlimited mobile music in the United Kingdom 2007-09-13
The group of telecommunications, present on many European markets, stated to have concluded an exclusive dealing agreement in the United Kingdom with the Omnifone firm, which will enable him to sell an unlimited fixed price of remote loading of music on the portable telephones of our neighbors of on the other side of the channel. The single tariff applied will be approximately 2,90 € per week, indicates Reuters.
Named MusicStation, the service of Vodafone will propose a catalogue of a million titles resulting from large the majors of the disc and will be accessible to the British at least equipped with mobiles 2,5G or 3G like with the holders with the new ensamples compounds Vodafone.
According to our fellow-members, Vodafone can thus be prided to provide the first service of this kind in Great Britain, an offer which recalls to which point the industry of the disc must face new ways of consuming the music. MusicStation had already been launched to Sweden last June and should be extended to France, with the other countries of Europe like in the Asia-Pacific and Africa, with for hope of touching 100 million compounds per annum.
Let us recall moreover that Vodafone was had a presentiment of to be the sole distributor of the iPhone, the telephone-walkman of Apple already sold to a million specimens in the United States. But the analysts estimate that exclusiveness will not finally go to the British operator but rather to the one of its competitors, O2 according to the Telegraph daily newspaper. Remain to observe if the group will be able indeed to compete with
