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MusicStation is a music service platform developed by Omnifone

Omnifone

Omnifone is an independent provider of cloud based unlimited music services to consumer electronics vendors, mobile carriers and internet service providers including RIM,Sony,HP, Sony Ericsson, Vodafone, Telenor, Hutchison Telecom and Vodacom....

. The cloud

Cloud computing

Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network ....

based platform works across a number of different digital device platforms

Platform (computing)

A computing platform includes some sort of hardware architecture and a software framework , where the combination allows software, particularly application software, to run...

and is tailored specifically for various partners including RIM

Research In Motion

Research In Motion Limited or RIM is a Canadian multinational telecommunications company headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada that designs, manufactures and markets wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market...

, Sony

Sony

, commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....

, Sony Ericsson

Sony Ericsson

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB is a joint venture established on October 1, 2001 by the Japanese consumer electronics company Sony Corporation and the Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson to manufacture mobile phones....

, HP, BSkyB, Vodafone

Vodafone

Vodafone Group Plc is a global telecommunications company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's largest mobile telecommunications company measured by revenues and the world's second-largest measured by subscribers , with around 341 million proportionate subscribers as of...

, Telenor

Telenor

Telenor Group is the incumbent telecommunications company in Norway, with headquarters located at Fornebu, close to Oslo. Today, Telenor Group is mostly an international wireless carrier with operations in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Asia, working predominantly under the Telenor brand...

, Hutchison Telecom and Vodacom

Vodacom

Vodacom is a pan-African mobile telecommunications company, and was the 1st cellular network in South Africa. It provides GSM service to more than 35 million customers in South Africa, Tanzania, Lesotho, Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Revenue for the year ended 31 March 2008...

Services

In February 2009 Omnifone introduced MusicStation Next Generation, a white label

White label

White label records are vinyl records with adhesive plain white labels affixed. Test pressings, usually with Test Pressing written on the label, with catalogue number, artist and recording time or date, are produced in small quantities to evaluate the quality of the disc production...

unlimited music audio and video download and streaming solution for ISPs and consumer electronics device vendors. The cloud based solution offers interoperable music on a wide range of connected devices, including home entertainment systems, gaming consoles, and car audio

Car audio

Car audio/video , auto radio, mobile audio, 12-volt and other terms are used to describe the sound or video system fitted in an automobile. While 12-volt audio and video systems are also used, marketed, or manufactured for marine, aviation, and buses, this article focuses on cars as the most common...

systems.

MusicStation Max is a white label pre-licensed music service development programme for mobile device vendors. Omnifone partners with device vendors to develop MusicStation Max powered devices pre-licensed for unlimited music downloads. The service enables users to download, play and share unlimited amounts of music directly on their device.

The service enables users and keep a specific amount their favourite music at the end of their contract. MusicStation Max is interoperable with MusicStation Desktop Edition with both services provided by partners across multiple territories.

MusicStation Max allows users at the end of the subscription to migrate their music to their next MusicStation Max device and continue access to unlimited music downloads or to keep playing their favourite tracks. The first handset vendor signed up for MusicStation Max is Sony Ericsson

Sony Ericsson

for PlayNow plus

PlayNow

PlayNow is Sony Ericsson's download service for media including music, games, ringtones, wallpapers and themes. It was introduced in February 2004 as a way for owners of SE phones to listen to and directly purchase ringtones. It was rolled out into 32 countries....

. Omnifone has reported that it is in talks with a number of vendors for MusicStation Max.

Sony Ericsson

Sony Ericsson

's PlayNow

PlayNow

services uses MusicStation Max. The first Walkman

Walkman

Walkman is a Sony brand tradename originally used for portable audio cassette, and now used to market Sony's portable audio and video players as well as a line of Sony Ericsson mobile phones...

handsets with PlayNow plus were launched on 24 November 2008 by Telenor

Telenor

in Sweden. Sony Ericsson has rolled out the service in 2009 with Swisscom

Swisscom

Swisscom AG is a major telecommunications provider in Switzerland. Along with Swiss Post, it is a successor company to the former state-owned PTT. Its headquarters are located at Worblaufen near Bern...

in Switzerland, Singtel in Singapore and Orange in Austria with further launches planned with mobile carriers internationally.

MusicStation Desktop Edition enables consumers to download, play and share music, direct to their desktop computer. The service is provided in partnership with personal computer vendors, mobile carrier networks, and broadband providers. The service offers music recommendations, connected community services and features, and an automatic back-up of private and public playlists to the cloud, plus online search and discovery capabilities. The service is able to synchronise with all other MusicStation-powered services and mobile devices via the cloud.

In April 2009 Hutchison Telecom became the first Omnifone partner to introduce MusicStation Desktop Edition to users in Hong Kong on its 3

Hutchison 3G

3 is a brand name under which several UMTS-based mobile phone networks and Broadband Internet Providers are operated in Australia, Austria, Denmark, Hong Kong, Macau, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, and the United Kingdom...

network.

Omnifone’s MusicStation was the first subscription based unlimited music download service available on mobiles in the UK launching with Vodafone in November 2007.

In June 2008, Omnifone announced that MusicStation had become the largest subscription based unlimited music download service in the UK within seven months of launching on Vodafone.

Availability of licensed content from major labels

Country	Universal	Sony	EMI	Warner
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Austria Austria Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
Belgium Belgium Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
Brazil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
Canada Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
Croatia Croatia Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
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Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
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The Netherlands
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Sweden Sweden Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
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History

• 14th January 2003: British Entrepreneurs Rob Lewis

Rob Lewis (entrepreneur)

Rob Lewis is an English businessman and serial entrepreneur. Lewis has established several successful publishing and technology ventures including Business & Technology magazine, Cromwell Media, Silicon Media Group and most recently Omnifone. Lewis is a 2009 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the...

, Phil Sant and Mark Knight form Omnifone

• 12th February 2007: Omnifone announces MusicStation

• 14th June 2007: MusicStation goes live with its first rollout in Sweden with Telenor

• 22nd October 2007: MusicStation launches in Hong Kong with 3

• 1st November 2007: MusicStation launches in South Africa with Vodacom

• 1st November 2007: MusicStation launches in the UK with Vodafone

• 12th February 2008: Omnifone launches MusicStation Max, a pre-licensed unlimited music phone development programme with LG signed up as a handset manufacturer

• 15th September 2008: MusicStation launches in New Zealand with Vodafone

• 22nd September 2008: MusicStation launches in Australia with Vodafone

• 24th September 2008: Omnifone announces partnership with Sony Ericsson to power PlayNow plus, its pre-licensed unlimited downloads service across Walkman mobiles

• 14th November 2008: Sony Ericsson launches PlayNow plus in Sweden with Telenor

• 8th January 2009: Omnifone announces partnership with Gracenote to bring unlimited music to multiple device platforms

• 12th January 2009: Omnifone powered in-car entertainment system CarStars wins CNET ‘Best of CES’ Car Tech award at the 2009 International Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas; the largest consumer electronics event in the world

• 16th February 2009: Omnifone announces MusicStation Next Generation unlimited music service for ISPs to fight piracy online, confirming reports that it is in discussions with BSkyB as its first ISP customer

• 13th March 2009: Sony Ericsson launches PlayNow plus in Switzerland with Swisscom

• 2nd April 2009: MusicStation Desktop Edition launches in Hong Kong

• 23rd April 2009: Sony Ericsson launches PlayNow plus in Singapore with Singtel

• 9th June 2009: Sony Ericsson launches PlayNow plus in Austria with Orange

• 8th September 2009: Sony Ericsson launches PlayNow plus in The Netherlands with T-Mobile

• 14th October 2009: Sony Ericsson launches PlayNow plus in Hungary with T-Mobile

• 19th October 2009: BSkyB launches Sky Songs streaming and downloads service in the UK

• 23rd October 2009: Sony Ericsson launches PlayNow plus in Brazil with Vivo

• 9th November 2009: Sony Ericsson launches PlayNow plus in Mexico with Telcel

• 20th November 2009: Sony Ericsson launches PlayNow plus in Croatia with T-Mobile

• 21st November 2009: Sony Ericsson launches PlayNow plus in Singapore with M1

• 8th January 2010: Omnifone extends relationship with Gracenote, allows for cloud-based music solutions in more than 30 countries in 2010

• 25th January 2010: Omnifone announces partnership with HP for MusicStation on PCs in 10 countries across Europe

• 15th February 2010: Omnifone announces MusicStation for Android

• 16th February 2010: Omnifone first to encode its global music catalogue into Dolby Pulse file format for cloud based digital music services in 2010

• 22nd December 2010: Sony launches Q Music Unlimited cloud music service powered by Omnifone in the UK and Ireland

• 22nd January 2011: Sony launches Q Music Unlimited cloud music service powered by Omnifone in France, Germany, Italy and Spain

• 17th February 2011: Sony launches Q Music Unlimited cloud music service powered by Omnifone in the US, Australia and New Zealand

• 25th August 2011: RIM launches BBM Music social music service in beta - powered by Omnifone in the US, Canada and the UK

Awards

Omnifone has won a number of awards for MusicStation including:

• Oracle UK Partner Awards 2009 – Most Innovative use of Oracle Technology

• CNET ‘Best of CES’ Car Tech Award 2009 – with Gracenote

• Global Mobile Awards 2008 – Best Mobile Music Service Award

• Mobile Industry Awards 2008 – Best Mobile Internet Service

• Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) Meffys 2007 – Music Service Award Meffy

• Juniper Research Future Music Awards 2008 – Gold Award for Mobile Music

• MCA (Mobile Content Awards) 2008: Silver Award: Best entertainment service

• MAMA (Mobile Advertising & Marketing Awards) 2008: Gold Award: Most Effective Use of Music

See also:

• Omnifone

Omnifone

• Rob Lewis

Rob Lewis (entrepreneur)

• Sony Ericsson

Sony Ericsson

PlayNow

plus

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