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November 14, 2007
China Telecom Introduces IMUSIC
By Anshu Shrivastava TMCnet Contributing Editor
China Telecom (News - Alert), a landline telephone carrier and Internet access service provider in China, announced that it has launched digital music service, IMUSIC, by joining hands with eight big labels.
The eight album companies are Warner, EMI Music, UMG, Sony BMG (News - Alert) Music Entertainment, Rock Music, Hurray!, Taihe Rye Music, and Music Nation Group, and according to company’s officials, China Telecom strictly controls the copyright of music.
Miao Wei, director of telecom service department at China Telecom, told the press that IMUSIC features music ring tones, vibrating ring tones, online trial listening, online download, music news, online search, and membership services.
In addition, IMUSIC is set to integrate its music services with other businesses of China Telecom, and the service is available to all fixed line telephone users and PHS handset users of China Telecom around the country.
Wei informed that his company has already launched the service in 21 provinces in southern China, including Anhui, Chongqing, Fujian, Guangdong, Gansu, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Hainan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Ningxia, Sichuan, Shanghai, Shaanxi, Xinjiang, Tibet, Yunnan and Zhejiang.
China Telecom, officially established in May 2002, has 21 provincial corporations, holding 70 percent of the national trunk-line transmission network assets owned by the former China Telecom. China Telecom also has another 10 branch corporations controlled by its Northern Telecom Department.
Anshu Shrivastava is a contributing editor with TMCnet.
