[opendtv] RCN starts Net music service / Customers get unlimited access to 700,000 songs
- From: Monty Solomon <monty@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 01:50:50 -0400
RCN starts Net music service
Customers get unlimited access to 700,000 songs
By Peter J. Howe, Globe Staff | July 7, 2004
RCN Corp., which provides cable television and telecommunications
services in parts of Boston and 15 suburbs, yesterday launched a
music-over-the-Internet service that offers unlimited computer-based
access to 700,000 songs for $8 a month with free song downloads.
In deploying the new service with Synacor Inc. of Buffalo, N.Y., RCN
is pulling the plug on its two-year-old partnership with Real
Networks Inc.'s Rhapsody unit, which charges $2 a month more and 79
cents per song for downloading songs for storage and playback on a
computer.
Real, located in Seattle, also has sales relationships with Comcast
Corp. and other cable companies; the service requires subscribers to
open their own Rhapsody account charged to a credit card.
In contrast, RCN broadband Internet subscribers choosing the ''RCN
Interaction" music service -- provided by Synacor's Portelus system
using MusicNet's library of songs, but marketed under RCN's brand --
will have the cost added directly to their monthly RCN bill. RCN will
offer a $1 one-month trial for the ser-vice.
...
http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2004/07/07/rcn_starts_net_music_service/
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