Next session at today's MidemNet conference is Nokia's Dr Tero Ojanpera, EVP of entertainment and communities. He's promised that his on-stage interview today will be “hard-hitting” apparently, so he has our rapt attention. As long as he addresses those reports of disappointing Comes With Music sales too, of course.Interviewer Bill Werde from Billboard kicks off by asking him about Comes With Music. Ojanpera says that within the next ten weeks, Nokia will roll out CWM to Australia and Singapore – i.e. in the first quarter.Why those? “They are great markets for Nokia, and we have been able to do a lot of the agreements that we need to run. It's not just about getting licences from the labels, it's the publishers, the operators, the retailers… We are also looking now at a European rollout.”He doesn't say who and when though, on that latter point. “2009 will be a very big investment on our part,” he says. “it's not just about putting the service out there. Marketing will be a critical element.”What about the US? “We have said we are looking at the US also in 2009, and also in Latin America. So it's about looking in the whole world, more [...]
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