VODAFONE AND SONY LAUNCH A MENU BASED MUSIC SERVICE.

• Position: Vodafone Group PLC, Sony (U.K. - Brief Article

Vodafone, the UK's leading mobile phone operator, announced on January 9 that it is to team up with Sony with a view to launching a menu-based music service that will allow customers to access music on 3G mobile phones and PCs. "Vodafone DJ Radio", will be available in the next few months in six countries in Europe (UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Portugal), with Vodafone intending to extend this to twenty or so countries next year. "Customers will have access to hundreds of thousands of songs, both current popular hits and back catalogue, from the world's largest record companies, and many smaller independent labels," Vodafone said in a statement...