Sprint hums along with fourth music offering.(News)

RCR Wireless News, September, 2005

Byline: COLIN GIBBS Sprint Nextel Corp. this week plans to announce its fourth music service, a wireless version of RealNetworks Inc.'s Rhapsody Radio. The offering includes five channels of streaming audio including alternative, pop, urban and country music, as well as podcasts from a California National Public Radio affiliate.

Users also can access music videos, news and reviews, and the service includes a kind of hip-hop karaoke that allows fans to rap to the beats of their favorite tunes. Sprint will offer the service to its Vision subscribers for an additional $7 a month. Basic Vision service costs users an additional $10 per month. Like the Sirius service, Rhapsody is not available to the carrier's Nextel subscriber base. The move...

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