Nokia signs up Sony to provide music for mobile phone users

: Nokia Corp. announced Tuesday that Sony BMG have joined the mobile telephone maker's music service, which will enable users to download and listen to paths on Nokia handsets.

Customers who have got got Nokia's Comes With Music programme on French telephones will have a twelvemonth of entree to Sony BMG's full catalogue of music. They will be able to download paths to cell telephones and computing machines during the first 12 calendar months of owning such as a device, Nokia said.

"As one of the prima major music companies in the world, our coaction with Sony BMG intends we can offer a immense scope of antic music from both international and local people via Comes With Music," said Tero Ojanpera, caput of the Nokia's amusement section. "It's great to have got them on board as we travel forward with bringing our limitless music package to the market."

Last year, Nokia signed up Universal Joint Music Group in a trade that includes a year's limitless entree to billions of paths for Nokia French telephone buyers, and said Tuesday that it is also "in treatment with many other international labels."

The world's top mobile telephone shaper is increasingly turning to providing services for its mobile clients via the Internet. It gauges that the worldwide marketplace for Internet services will attain €100 billion (US$160 billion) by 2010. Today in Business with Reuters

Last year, the Finnish company unveiled new Web-based services and appliances to assist clients download music and drama games on French telephones — portion of a strong pushing to dispute rivals, including Apple's iTunes and iPod.

Comes With Music will be launched in the 2nd one-half of 2008 on a scope of Nokia devices in selected markets, Nokia said.

In 2007, Nokia sold nearly 440 million French telephones accounting for 40 percentage of all planetary cell telephone sales. The company is based in Espoo, which is near the capital, Helsinki, and uses 116,000 people worldwide.

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