Record label to sell phone service to music fans …
This seems like a pretty bad business model innovation idea … who cares which label an artist is signed on to, so I don’t know what they hope for really:
Universal Music, a unit of Vivendi Universal, becomes the latest to get into the affinity phone business, joining the likes of ESPN and Walt Disney in trying to carve out a niche of customers by selling phones that focus on providing specific content.
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The emergence of a music-oriented phone service comes as the record labels, and cellular carriers, are trying to profit from selling music over mobile devices.
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