May 23, 2007
Sprint to offer Pandora streaming radio
Sprint Nextel Corp. has teamed with Pandora, a popular online music service, to deliver personalized streaming radio to its mobile phone users. The Associated Press reports.
"Pandora is a free Internet-based radio service that lets people create stations based on their favorite artists and other songs it finds that match in style.
The music service has attracted 6.9 million users since launching in November 2005 and was recently banned, along with a dozen other popular media Web sites, such as YouTube and MySpace, from the Defense Department's computer system because of network bandwidth concerns.
Pandora's Internet radio service now will be available beyond computers — on Sprint beginning Wednesday. It will be free for the first 30 days of use but will cost an additional $2.99 per month with a Sprint data plan. The service will work initially on five phone models but will expand to all high-speed data phones sold by Sprint by the end of June, the company said.
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