Music to be the next major driver of data revenues for mobile operators

Speaking at the 3GSM show in Cannes, on the Charles Dunstone, the head of Carphone Warehouse said operators should do more to differentiate their content to gain customer loyalty, reports Total Telecom.

"Drawing on the success of portable music devices, Dunstone predicted that downloadable music will be the next major driver of data revenues for operators.

"The Apple iPod has begun to normalise the idea of downloaded content on a portable device," he said. "Will phones become iPods or will iPods become the phone? I don't know, but it won't take long before people want content on their iPods immediately without going to their computer."

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