The over the air music service is only viable if Cingular has a 3G network up and running in a good number of major US markets. I doubt GPRS/EDGE has either the bandwidth or speed to support a music download service running at the same time as normal data/voice usage on the network.
The CDMA carriers can do music services because they upgraded their 1xRTT networks (at least in a good number of markets) to EV-DO, which can handle the bandwidth and are fast enough so downloading 4MB music files is bearable.
I'm supprised T-mobile didn't launch a service like the Cingular one. They could try to leverage their HotSpot network to get around the lack of over the (cellular) air ability.
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The over the air music service is only viable if Cingular has a 3G network up and running in a good number of major US markets. I doubt GPRS/EDGE has either the bandwidth or speed to support a music download service running at the same time as normal data/voice usage on the network.
The CDMA carriers can do music services because they upgraded their 1xRTT networks (at least in a good number of markets) to EV-DO, which can handle the bandwidth and are fast enough so downloading 4MB music files is bearable.
I'm supprised T-mobile didn't launch a service like the Cingular one. They could try to leverage their HotSpot network to get around the lack of over the (cellular) air ability.