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Verizon Wireless Announces Mobile Music Download Service At CES

Vcast240505_5Verizon Wireless has unveiled a new music service as part of it’s Vcast offering which will allow consumers to download full-length songs and transfer them between their handset and a Windows XP personal computer.

Downloads from a PC will cost $1 and can be moved to the phone via a USB cable. Purchases from a Verizonwireless_4 handset will cost $2, but include two copies of the song so that it can be played on both the phone and the PC. Entire albums will be available via computer and Verizon promised 1 million songs will be available by spring from Warner Music Group, EMI Music, Universal, Sony BMG and indy distributor The Orchard.  The download service debuts January 16th in a somewhat abbreviated version.

Verizon joins Sprint Nextel Corp. in offering full-track music downloads with Sprint’s downloads costing a whopping $2.50.  Amp’d Mobile promises 99 cents downloads when it debuts later this year.

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