Friday, December 23, 2005

Verizon Wireless latest to launch online music service

Online music services are the latest and greatest thing. Yesterday we heard and wrote about a start-up open source music service and today we find out that Verizon is apparently about to launch their own!

As early as next month they may launch a music download service that will let subscribers purchase music wirelessly over their mobile phones and transfer songs between their phones and Windows PCs.

The new service, called V Cast Music, is designed to offer songs from artists on major music labels, including Warner Music Group, EMI Music, Universal Music Group and Sony BMG. Verizon expects to offer more than a million songs by the spring.

Mobile music services such as this have to be the future. Expect many more starting next year. It'll be interesting to see who will ultimately win in online music apps. My bets on the mobile operators long term - unless Apple gets more open with iTunes.

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