Articles tagged with: Universal Music and Mobile Music

Orange Sprinkles Some Monkey Magic Over its PrePay Service

Orange UK has announced a new PrePay tariff that offers free music streamed to their mobile phone each time they top up their account. Aimed primarily at the youth market, the so-called "Monkey" tariff has been created with 16-24 year olds in mind tapping into the elements of teen and 'twenty somethings' lifestyle choices. As well as free music, Monkey offers customers free texts, allows for playlists to be shared on social networks, along with advertising from relevant brands direct to their mobile. more

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SingTel Launches Unlimited Mobile Music Service

Singapore based mobile network operator, SingTel has alunched a free mobile music download service for its contract customers. The service, branded SingTel AMPed, has been developed in partnership with Universal Music Group (UMG) and offers music videos and pre-release albums in addition to conventional music downloads. more

Nokia Secures Pan-European Licensing for Music Download Platform

Nokia says that it has secured a pan European licensing deal to support its Comes With Music mobile music download platform. Nokia has entered into pan European licenses for its Comes With Music service with Universal Music Publishing Group, and the national collecting societies SACEM, SDRM, and SESAM (France), SGAE (Spain), and SIAE (Italy). more

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Sony Ericsson Looking at Unlimited Music Downloads Service

Sony Ericsson is reported to be working on a mobile music service which would offer handset purchasers an unlimited download of music tracks. The move is expected to compete directly with the similar platform from Nokia which is just launching in the UK and offers 12 months worth of unlimited downloads with selected new handsets. more

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EU-5 mobile music retail revenues to exceed $1.4 billion in 2012

Europe's mobile music scene is more advanced than that in the US. While the UK is the biggest individual mobile music market in the EU-5, the other countries-France, Germany, Italy and Spain-are reporting sharp growth as well. eMarketer predicts that mobile music retail revenues in the EU-5 will reach over $1.4 billion by 2012, up from $267 million in 2007. more

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Video to Drive Premium Mobile Content Market to Double by 2011

Driven by rising demand for video, the market for premium mobile content is expected to exceed $44 billion in 2011, more than double the nearly $20 billion in 2007, iSuppli is predicting. The mobile video market continues to develop, but remains highly fragmented with uncertain business models, technology standards, and consumer usage models. Content rights need to be resolved. Geographic differences are significant both in terms of content consumption and the regulatory environment. more

Content Drives Data Revenue as Voice Business Wanes

Faced with a falling Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) for their voice services, mobile communications providers are offering premium multimedia content in order to compensate for their reduced voice revenue per subscriber, according to the market-research firm iSuppli. more

UK Omnifone To Unveil First Rival To Apple's iPhone, iTunes"

BARCELONA (AP)--Omnifone, a UK mobile music company, will unveil a new music service Monday aimed at cell phone users who crave music while on the go, in the first of what is expected to be many challenges against Apple's upcoming iPhone and its ubiquitous iTunes music service. more

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Universal Music Launches Mobile Mobile Portal

Groove Mobile has announced a partnership with Universal Music UK to build and operate an "off-portal" mobile music store. Through this partnership, UK mobile phone users on any UK wireless carrier will have instant access to full track downloads from Universal Music UK's extensive catalogue via SMS short codes from their mobile phones. more

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EMI, T-Mobile Launch Ad-Funded Mobile Music Trial"

LONDON -(Dow Jones)- EMI Group says it is working with Deutsche Telekom unit T-Mobile, and Rhythm NewMedia on an advertising-supported mobile music video service. more

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