AT&T Inks Napster Pact for Mobile Music

October 23rd, 2007

On Monday, mobile service giant AT&T said it would begin offering wireless downloads of full-track songs over the air from Napster. AT&T’s deal with the once-controversial digital music subscription service extends an existing agreement.Beginning in mid-November, the Napster Mobile service will let AT&T wireless customers search a music catalog of more than five million songs, preview samples of each song, and purchase and download music from their wireless handsets, the companies said.

The deal gives AT&T the largest mobile music platform, according to Mark Collins, vice president of Consumer Data for AT&T’s wireless unit. AT&T, which is the largest carrier with more than 63 million customers, is competing with Verizon Wireless and Sprint for wireless downloads.

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