Sprint conciders music subscription

Posted March 30, 2006 at 04:41 PM by Adam Berger

Section: Portable Audio, Cellphones, Online Music/Video

Sprint Nextel is reportedly planning a music subscription service as opposed to their current $2.50 per song model. They also have yet to settle for a price. I think that if you want people in mass to use the service and purchase songs it needs to be competitive in the marketplace, which is currently set at $.99 per download. Yeah I know that the Sprint store gives you a copy for your phone as well as your PC, but I can do that almost as easily from my PC and a miniSD card.

Sprint is also talking about a deal with Sirius. Sprint’s Chief Operating Officer Len Lauer referring to 20 channels from Sirius: “We’d like to have the capability later this year that the customer listens to a song and says, ‘I want to buy that song’.” That seems to be a different effort from the download subscription service, although if both were introduced it would be interesting to see whether they were hooked up or not, and the reasoning put forward.

Satellite radio on your cell phone, with download capabilities, and possible storage...now we’retalking jammin’.

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