Nokia reveals subscription renewal plans for Comes With Music customers

What happens when you reach the end of your 12-month Comes With Music contract? It's a question that's been asked ever since Nokia launched its unlimited music service in the UK last October.Nokia always made it clear that users would keep all the music they'd downloaded, but fudged the issue of how they would continue to download new tracks without buying a new Comes With Music device.Not any more. “We now have a solution to what happens after the first 12 months,” Nokia's EVP of Services Niklas Savander told Music Ally this morning, at the company's Nokia World conference in Stuttgart.“We have an agreement with labels on the subscription model, for a renewal on a monthly basis. We have had a lot of feedback from operators on the need to transition when people reach the end of the 12 months, so this is going to make a big difference with the carriers.”The obvious follow-up question: How much will it cost a month to continue with a Comes With Music subscription? Nokia isn't putting a figure to it for now, but here's the thing: it will be set by the company's operator partners, not by Nokia.Or, more accurately, operators will be [...]