LEDBURY, U.K.-Companies across the industry are investing in mobile music services according to a recent report from BWCS."Many of the leading players we spoke to for this report are moving full-steam ahead on a raft of music services," said report author Peggy Anne Salz....
WOODBURY, N.Y.—Comverse announced Thailand-based mobile operator, Advanced Info Service (AIS), has chosen Comverse's VoiCD advanced mobile music solution for listening to and distributing music and other multimedia content.AIS will call the VoiCD music portal "Music-2-Gether," and it will allow users to listen to music...
MILAN, Italy—Dutchtone's 1.2 million customers will now be able to download a wide range of music tracks and personalized messages through a deal among the Dutch wireless carrier, electronic music distribution company Vitaminic SpA and messaging company Comverse.Dutchtone's Mobile Music Service offers music content...
PARIS—French mobile music services company Musiwap changed its name to Musiwave. The company said it replaced the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)-focused name to better reflect the company's focus on various data technologies, such as short message service (SMS) and third-generation (3G) services.
NEW YORK—Vivendi Universal has deployed MyNetonomy , developed by U.S.-based Netonomy, as the portal through which customers can purchase, activate and personalize services on Universal Music Mobile (UMM).Launched commercially in late September, the service delivers Vivendi Universal's music-oriented content over the GSM network of...
LONDON—Musiwap, a European mobile music service provider, signed an agreement to make clips of Zomba's music catalog accessible through Musiwap's wireless services. Zomba is the largest independent music operation.
TOKYO-The third-generation (3G) business plans and service strategies of three Japanese cellular carriers are becoming more concrete. NTT DoCoMo and J-Phone Group, the mobile business of Japan Telecom, are going to launch 3G services based on wideband-CDMA (W-CDMA) technology in 2001, and the country's...
TOKYO-The mobile music distribution business is going to take off in Japan, according to industry representatives. Some carriers have already revealed their services, while others are promoting field tests in cooperation with vendors.NTT DoCoMo at the beginning of 2000 established a joint venture with...
TOKYO-The number of Japanese PHS subscribers expanded in the December-January time frame, demonstrating that the long-ailing PHS business is starting to revitalize.The number of PHS users in the country has decreased for the last few years since hitting a high of 7 million in...
