O2 Germany Signs Up With Nokia For Mobile Music Solution

O2 Germany Signs Up With Nokia For Mobile Music Solution

Hannover, Germany – Nokia and Loudeye Corp. (Nasdaq: LOUD) today announced that O2 Germany has signed up with Nokia to launch a complete mobile music experience under the O2 Germany brand powered by Loudeye. The O2 Germany mobile music service will leverage the platform developed by Loudeye and Nokia that allows operators worldwide to launch comprehensive branded mobile music services for their customers with a minimum amount of effort and resources. O2 Germany is the fastest growing mobile operator in Germany and part of the European O2 group.

“We were the first German mobile operator to launch a music service, with O2 music one year ago,” said Lutz Schüler, member of the board of O2 Germany. “During this year, we plan to address the mass market with a large number of handsets from different manufacturers, as well as the possibility for music download on both mobile phones and over the Internet. The open platform from Nokia and Loudeye makes it possible to achieve this.”

O2 Germany’s mobile music experience will allow users to browse, search, listen, and download full-length songs to their mobile device based on the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Digital Rights Management specifications. Music purchases will be billed directly to a user’s existing O2 Germany monthly statement. Currently, O2 Germany has over 230,000 songs available for contract customers and starting in summer 2005, customers will have access to more than 500,000 songs covering genres such as pop, jazz, rock, R&B and dance.

Customers can also use their personal computer to access the O2 music shop via the Internet and download songs to their PC. The service will also allow users to synchronize their music collection with their mobile device. Songs that have been purchased remain available for customers to download free of charge to their mobile device or PC.

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