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Comes With Music heading to India
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 22 March 2010
Good news for CMU readers in India, very soon you too will be able to enjoy Nokia’s totally shit all you can eat music service, Comes With Music. You lucky lucky people. The handset company will launch its DRM-heavy music service in India in the first half of the year.
As previously reported, Comes With Music enables unlimited music downloads from a large catalogue which are, in theory, permanent, though are locked to the handset or PC to which they are downloaded, so in reality the service gives users a short lived digital music collection.
The cost of the downloads is bundled into the price of the Nokia handset. While response to the service has been somewhat negative in the UK, Comes With Music has had more success in some other territories, such as Singapore, and the Indian digital music market is very much mobile orientated.
The arrival of the service in the Indian market comes as the country begins to upgrade its mobile networks so to offer 3G mobile internet access. The country’s mobile firms are currently bidding for control of the 3G network.
