February 20, 2008

Rob Lewis, CEO, Omnifone: Freeing Mobile Music

Omnifone’s MusicStation, a subscription mobile music service giving all-you-can-eat music for £1.99 a week, clocked up over 500,000 track downloads within 10 days of debuting on Vodafone late last year. Right now, there’s only Universal repertoire and no carriers have yet committed to the idea - but more labels are “only a matter of time”, and network discussions are “ongoing”. Lewis gave me a sneak preview of the prototype LG handset that demonstrates the idea… (PaidContent)