Vodafone launches new music service

Vodafone has launched Vodafone Music, less than a year after announcing a partnership with Omnifone's unlimited MusicStation service. Vodafone Music lets customers buy music from their mobile device and download the tracks directly to the phone. The average price for a single is 99p, with albums priced at £7.99. [Press release]

Flat-rate mobile music services to boom

Mobile music services that offer unlimited music downloads for a flat subscription fee will soon provide most of the money made from original recordings, according to a new report from Juniper Research. It says the market for subscription-based music rental services will reach $3.3 billion by 2012, overtaking the conventional download market. Total revenues from 'paid for' and 'rental' music will increase from $960 million in 2007 to $6.1 billion in 2012.
[Source: PRWeb.com press release]