Monday, December 20, 2004
Sprint To Offer Streaming Music Feature
Posted by Kent Pribbernow in "NEWS" @ 02:00 AM
"Sprint on Monday plans to launch a new service for streaming music over the airwaves to cell phones, powered by a company that provides digital music to cable and satellite TV subscribers. Under the terms of the deal, Music Choice is providing a range of six streaming music channels organized by genre, as well as some music videos and artist interviews for Sprint subscribers who pay about $6 a month. If that sounds a little bit like the radio, it's not entirely a bad comparison, said Dave Del Beccaro, CEO of Music Choice."
Hmm. So basically this is something akin to satellite radio via cell phone. Interesting idea, but I don't see this taking off. The US Cell phone market is still too primitive, and the ability to take advantage of this new service will be hampered by the hardware of its user base. For example, if my cell phone doesn't have a headphone jack, am I supposed to hold the stupid thing up to my ear and listen that way? And what about minute by minute charges..am I eating into my free minutes every time I access the service?
Hmm. So basically this is something akin to satellite radio via cell phone. Interesting idea, but I don't see this taking off. The US Cell phone market is still too primitive, and the ability to take advantage of this new service will be hampered by the hardware of its user base. For example, if my cell phone doesn't have a headphone jack, am I supposed to hold the stupid thing up to my ear and listen that way? And what about minute by minute charges..am I eating into my free minutes every time I access the service?
