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MUMBAI: After signing on Universal Music and recently inking a deal with Sony BMG, Nokia has now brought Warner Music Group aboard, with EMI being the only major left sitting out on the service. This deal has been struck as Nokia Nokia is going through with its “Comes With Music” flat-rate digital music subscription plans, as reported by mocoNews.net.
The report further added, “Comes With Music” was unveiled with repertoire from Universal in December last year and is due on handsets in the second half of ’08. Buyers get free tunes on the handset and PC for a year, and then must renew their device or move to Nokia’s subscription-based unlimited-access store.For WMG, which has long been mobile-music friendly, this is among the biggest such deals it has done, the company says, “This is probably the most important deal of its kind that we’ve done so far,” said Warner’s chief of digital strategy Michael Nash to FT. WMG may also do similar deals with other handset and carrier companies.
