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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.]]>Sep 21st 2006 11:22AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/09/21/the-lowdown-on-sony-ericssons-online-music-plans/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/09/21/the-lowdown-on-sony-ericssons-online-music-plans/Sep 21st 2006 4:32PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/09/21/the-lowdown-on-sony-ericssons-online-music-plans/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/09/21/the-lowdown-on-sony-ericssons-online-music-plans/Sep 21st 2006 11:35PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/09/21/the-lowdown-on-sony-ericssons-online-music-plans/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/09/21/the-lowdown-on-sony-ericssons-online-music-plans/Sep 22nd 2006 12:59AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/09/21/the-lowdown-on-sony-ericssons-online-music-plans/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/09/21/the-lowdown-on-sony-ericssons-online-music-plans/
Flatrate datapackages at affordable prices for UMTS/EDGE are not that far away. In Sweden (with TeliaSonera) you never pay more than aprox. 1,20$ per day for unlimited data transfers.]]>Sep 22nd 2006 8:55AM