Spotify is Reportedly Planning a Free Music Streaming Service for Mobile Devices

Spotify is planning a free music streaming service for mobile devices.
 

The company has reportedly signed licensing deals with all three of the global music companies for the ad supported service. Currently, a free version of Spotify is only available for desktops.


Spotify, which has 6 million paying subscribers and 20 million active users world-wide, has been negotiating for nearly a year with the three major record companies— Sony Corp.'s Sony Music Entertainment, Vivendi's Universal Music Group and Access Industries' Warner Music Group—over the rates it will pay them to play songs on the free mobile service, and over how much direct control users have over what they listen to, these people said.


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