"... with mobile operators limiting datatransfers to 10 or 20 Mb/month in their 3G or EDGE plans how can such services be successful ?"
If you're paying three dollars or euros or pounds per song, I think the mobile operators will be fine with letting you download as many songs as you want outside of their data limit. that said, for this to happen you gotta think that Sony will have to give operators a large chunk of the revenues.
But why would operators do this? In the US, Sprint and verizon just created their own music delivery system and it has generated millions of downloads, and they keep all the money. They had to spend money to develop the system, sure - but it's now in place and they own it and they keep the money (the portion not doled out to record labels, of course).
So the Sony model is gonna have to distribute the money to Sony, record labels AND carriers. I just don't see this succeeding when the operators can just go out and contract a system of their own that they control. Sorry, Sony.
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flamer's grill @ Sep 21st 2006 11:22AM
"... with mobile operators limiting datatransfers to 10 or 20 Mb/month in their 3G or EDGE plans how can such services be successful ?"
If you're paying three dollars or euros or pounds per song, I think the mobile operators will be fine with letting you download as many songs as you want outside of their data limit. that said, for this to happen you gotta think that Sony will have to give operators a large chunk of the revenues.
But why would operators do this? In the US, Sprint and verizon just created their own music delivery system and it has generated millions of downloads, and they keep all the money. They had to spend money to develop the system, sure - but it's now in place and they own it and they keep the money (the portion not doled out to record labels, of course).
So the Sony model is gonna have to distribute the money to Sony, record labels AND carriers. I just don't see this succeeding when the operators can just go out and contract a system of their own that they control. Sorry, Sony.