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Telco Tusass to launch Greenland’s first music-streaming service
Greenland is getting its first homegrown music-streaming service, courtesy of local telco Tusass, in partnership with Tuned Global.
Indian telco Jio’s new $12 4G phone includes JioSaavn music
According to telco Jio, there are still 250 million Indian mobile users who still have ‘feature phones’ (not smartphones) with 2G.
UK telco Vodafone’s Voxi launches an ‘unlimited music’ plan
British Telco Vodafone is making music a key selling point in the latest affordable mobile plan from its Voxi brand.
Snap and Live Nation launched AR lenses for Governors Ball event
It involved a third partner, telco Verizon Wireless, with Snap creating two AR lenses for Snapchat users to create with during the festival.
Tuned Global talks telcos, wellness and local streaming growth
For B2B music company Tuned Global, years of hard work on its technology platform and music offering have been paying off in 2020 and 2021 so far.
“We’ve had a great last year: we’ve almost doubled as a business,” says managing director Con Raso, in an interview with Music Ally.
That growth has come from an increasingly diverse roster of clients, from telcos and local streaming service to wellness firms and other startups, who have tapped into various aspects of Tuned Global’s software and services.
Spanish telco Telefónica launches its own music service
Ah, the age-old cycle of telcos launching their own music services, then shutting them down in favour of partnerships with third-party music DSPs, then launching their own music services again, […]
Mdundo reveals latest telco deal: with Vodacom Tanzania
Telcos are set to play an important role in the evolution of music streaming across Africa, both through the rollout of their 4G networks and cheaper mobile data plans, and […]
Audiomack signs data bundle deal with telco MTN in Nigeria
Streaming service Audiomack has been setting its sights strongly on Africa in recent times, and its latest deal continues that expansion. The company is working with telco MTN Nigeria on […]
MTN Rwanda launches a pay-as-you-play streaming service
Telco MTN Rwanda has launched a new music streaming service that charges by the minute. It’s called MusicTime and has launched initially as an Android app. MTN customers who download […]
Deezer and uduX announce their latest deals with telcos
There are still plenty of partnerships to be done between music streaming services and telcos, in established and high-potential markets alike. The latest example of the former is Deezer’s tie-up […]
Japanese telco NTT DoCoMo adds western music with Napster deal
Streaming is finally (if slowly) taking off in Japan, thanks in part to competition from local and global services. One of those belongs to telco NTT DoCoMo, via a partnership with Japanese firm RecoChoku.
The service is called dMusic, and it offers a mix of music, playlists and videos. Now it’s getting an infusion of western music courtesy of a deal between RecoChoku and Napster.
The partnership will add 50m songs from the Powered by Napster B2B catalogue to dMusic, and represents the latest deal for Napster in Japan, following Sony Music (for its Mora Qualitas hi-res streaming service) and tech firm Rakuten (for its Rakuten Music service).