3 UK will be first operator to offer Comes With Music

Posted by Chris Garland October 24th, 2008

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Hutchison Whampoa unit 3 UK will become the first operator to offer Nokia devices bundled with Comes With Music after announcing plans to launch Nokia’s Comes With Music service on Nov. 3 on selected 8GB Nokia N95 handsets.
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Nokia music? Comes without mobile

Posted by Steve Mullins October 17th, 2008

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Plenty of plaudits for Nokia’s Comes With Music mobile music service which launches in the UK today. The biggest problem is that it’s barely mobile at all. To avoid users racking up hefty data charges on wireless networks, Nokia gets them downloading tracks to the PC for sideloading to the handset.

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Nokia finds it easier to sell handsets than services – for now

Posted by Paul Lambert October 14th, 2008

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Telefonica Moviles has become the first carrier to announce that it will be offering Nokia’s 5800 XpressMusic phone, but it looks as if it will be doing so without the handset maker’s Comes With Music service.

The move will be a blow to Nokia because the Finnish vendor is trying to develop its service offerings in a bid to add incremental revenues to those already generated from selling handsets.
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Perhaps mobile operators should think “TV” and not just “Mobile TV”

Posted by Shailendra Pandey October 11th, 2008

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Mobile operator Orange plans to launch a new service that includes a package of five cinema channels in France from November. The content on the channels will be available for viewing as live broadcasts as well as on-demand. Orange will license content from Warner Bros, Metro Goldwyn Mayer, HBO, Gaumont, BAC Films, Wild Side Films and Fidelite Film for this service.

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