Cingular cell phone service - NEWS: AT&T asks king's ransom for Napster tunes

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NEWS: AT&T asks king's ransom for Napster tunes

John Navas

2007-10-23, 4:33 am

<http://www.theregister.com/2007/10/... pster_service/>

AT&T hopes to fool the youth of America into paying way too much for
digital music.

Today, the big-name telco announced that it will soon offer wireless
access to Napster, the subscription-based digital music service. But
it's ignoring the subscription bit. AT&T is giving certain cell phone
owners the power to actually purchase and download songs from the
service, charging $7.49 for a group of five tunes and $1.99 for
individual tracks.

Yes, that price is high. But AT&T's director of premium content Rob
Hyatt is confident that "young music fans" won't notice.

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karlkrandall@sbcglobal.net

2007-10-23, 10:33 pm

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:19:35 GMT, John Navas
< spamfilter1@navasgro
up.com> wrote:

><http://www.theregister.com/2007/10/... pster_service/>
>
> AT&T hopes to fool the youth of America into paying way too much for
> digital music.
>
> Today, the big-name telco announced that it will soon offer wireless
> access to Napster, the subscription-based digital music service. But
> it's ignoring the subscription bit. AT&T is giving certain cell phone
> owners the power to actually purchase and download songs from the
> service, charging $7.49 for a group of five tunes and $1.99 for
> individual tracks.
>
> Yes, that price is high. But AT&T's director of premium content Rob
> Hyatt is confident that "young music fans" won't notice.
>
> [MORE]

iTunes - still only 99 cents each per download, and available on your
WiFi connected iPhone now.

Todd Allcock

2007-10-24, 10:33 am

At 23 Oct 2007 21:16:20 +0000 karlkrandall@sbcglob
al.net wrote:

> iTunes - still only 99 cents each per download, and available on your
> WiFi connected iPhone now.

Yep. And I'm sure iPhone customers appreciate the irony that they can't
use their "unlimited" cellular data plan to download songs.

I can see the ads now: "iTunes- only $0.99 for your AT&T iPhone.
Anywhere T-Mobile Hotspots are available..." ;-)

Kurt

2007-10-24, 12:33 pm

In article <ffno62$ph1$1@aioe.org>,
Todd Allcock < elecconnec@AmericaOn
Line.com> wrote:

> At 23 Oct 2007 21:16:20 +0000 karlkrandall@sbcglob
al.net wrote:
>
>
> Yep. And I'm sure iPhone customers appreciate the irony that they can't
> use their "unlimited" cellular data plan to download songs.
>
You're the only one who seems to be complaining.
I prefer to download where I get fast connection. Who wants to download
a movie from a phone line?

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Todd Allcock

2007-10-24, 10:33 pm

At 24 Oct 2007 09:45:23 -0700 Kurt wrote:

> You're the only one who seems to be complaining.
> I prefer to download where I get fast connection. Who wants to download
> a movie from a phone line?

No one, but a song would certainly be doable.

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