January 24, 2006
Cellphone industry goes gaga for radio
Reporting from the world’s music market, the MIDEM held in Cannes, the IHT writes about radio broadcasting over cell phones.
... "Radio now involves companies from the public broadcaster BBC to T-Mobile, the German cellphone operator, and Sony Network Services
New type of radio are popping up such as Radio DJ, is neither a mass media nor a broadcast. This "radio" lets the listener train a music service to personalize the song offerings, and the signal is available only over third-generation mobile phone networks.
... Established Internet radio providers are moving into the mobile phone. Whether any of these mobile versions of "radio" could ever take off the way portable AM or FM did is unknown, but they do give paying customers more music options."
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