PACKETVIDEO MUSIC CLIENT POWERS VERSATILE MUSIC SERVICE FOR OMNITEL
SAN DIEGO – Nov. 8, 2009 – PacketVideo (PV) announced today that Omnitel subscribers now have access to Omnitel Music Player, a flexible music service from PacketVideo (PV) that offers music subscriptions and music side-loading from an to a PC. Omnitel marks the fifth mobile operator within the TeliaSonera group to launch the PV designed music service, including similar launches in Sweden in late 2008, Norway, Finland, and Denmark earlier this year. Omnitel holds 39 percent of the mobile subscriber market share in Lithuania and touts more than a million subscribers.
The new music service includes a downloadable library of more than four million music tracks, which consumers can access in unlimited quantity for a single low monthly subscription fee. Once downloaded, subscribers can play the music files on up to three PCs and two mobile devices.
Omnitel Music Player employs PV’s proven music solution, including client software for mobile devices and PCs that enables users to seamlessly synchronize music files between their PC, handset and other compatible CE devices without the need to change file formats or pay separate payload or delivery fees. Additionally, the service will be available on a broad number of Windows Mobile-, Symbian- and Java-based handsets, including smartphones and select feature phones.
“Already enjoyed by customers in Sweden, Norway Finland and Denmark, the TeliaSonera music service will now provide Lithuanian users with a simple and easy way to share and synchronize music across multiple devices regardless of file format,” said Sonja Hof, Director of Program Management.
PV’s solution enables TeliaSonera to customize both language and user interface appearance – or “skin” – to specific brands throughout the TeliaSonera network including Omnitel, providing a key benefit to the mobile operator. The service also incorporates PV’s proprietary SDC digital rights management system, which ensures media usage rights are maintained in a manner that is unobtrusive to users, while making file sharing and synchronization across multiple devices possible.
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About PV: Founded in 1998, PV is the software pioneer powering the world’s leading multimedia services on millions of home and mobile devices. PV is a subsidiary of NextWave Wireless Inc. (NASDAQ: WAVE).
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