14 DAY TRIAL // It's already established as a trend in the Internet Business to have your own music download service if you claim to be one of the top companies. This is basically the latest fashion, Internet services speaking. There's really no need for any further introduction of iTunes, but Yahoo made a few waves recently as well when it announced doubling costs for its music download service. Now, it is time for another competitor to enter this market: Sprint Wireless announced yesterday it plans to launch a music download service shortly.
The third largest mobile operator in the U.S., Sprint Nextel Corp, let the world know that the service will be launched at an undisclosed time and will be supported by terminals provided by Samsung and Sanyo.
Sprint's competition isn't just watching this happen without doing anything about it, so both Cingular Wireless and Verizon Wireless announced that they will too launch such services. All these operators distribute mobile phones able to store and play music copied from a computer. However, Sprint is the first to make it possible for users to download music through a wireless network, store and play the music only via mobile phones.
The cost per downloaded song has been established at $2.5, which tells us from the start that Sprint isn't going to compete with iTunes which offers songs for only $1. The bigger price might be justified by having access to a deluxe service which provides music on the go, but experts are still skeptic about this service being successful.
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