Because there is no MySpace Mobile website. Carriers have to build their own front-end to the MySpace database, and use if that front-end is what they charge access for. Well, all but Helio anyway, since MySpace Mobile is free for Helio members.
Carriers go about this in different ways. Helio first built a WAP front-end in early 2006, then released a dedicated, standalone application with increased functionality in 2007. at&t (then Cingular) built a generic Java application that more or less tries to replicate the Helio experience - but it delivers less functionality and users incur a monthly charge. It looks like Rogers is using a Java application, too - it might even be the same one originally built for at&t.
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Because there is no MySpace Mobile website. Carriers have to build their own front-end to the MySpace database, and use if that front-end is what they charge access for. Well, all but Helio anyway, since MySpace Mobile is free for Helio members.
Carriers go about this in different ways. Helio first built a WAP front-end in early 2006, then released a dedicated, standalone application with increased functionality in 2007. at&t (then Cingular) built a generic Java application that more or less tries to replicate the Helio experience - but it delivers less functionality and users incur a monthly charge. It looks like Rogers is using a Java application, too - it might even be the same one originally built for at&t.