THE great online music war is about to break out in Australia.
Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, will launch a local frontal attack on Apple's iTunes, the biggest music service in the world, with the first shots fired next Tuesday.
Nokia announced the launch of the service in Sydney yesterday, showing off the local internet browser-based library of more than 2 million songs, including local artists such as the John Butler Trio, Pete Murray and veterans such as Jimmy Barnes.
Customers will be able to download songs, priced at $1.70 a track, or $17 an album (a cent more than Apple charges in each case), directly to their 3G mobile phones or, much more cheaply, to their PC for later loading into a mobile phone fitted with an MP3 player.
As well as direct downloads, the Nokia library will offer, for $10 a month, an "all you can eat" music streaming service that will allow subscribers to listen on their phone to any track from the entire catalogue of music without downloading it for later playing.
Nokia's chief executive in Australia, Sean Colligan, said distribution deals had been done with three of the four global record companies — Universal, Sony-BMG and EMI — and negotiations were under way with Warner Music.
"We aim to be number one in music here and in the world," Mr Colligan said.
source : http://www.theage.com.au/news/
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