Sprint mobile music service reaches 1M

Sprint Nextel today said that its customers have downloaded one million songs from the Sprint Music Store, a competitor to Apple's own iTunes Music Store. Sprint launched the service on October 24th of 2005, and while the company charges $2.50 per song versus Apple's 99-cent pricing, Sprint allows customers to purchase songs from a catalog of over 320,000 songs via mobile phones using its "Power Vision" network. Apple, however, reported one million downloads during the first week after launching its service. A Sprint spokesman David Gunasegaram said Sprint Nextel does not intend to compete with iTunes, and that "it's a value-added [service] for our customers." Sprint had not made an estimate of the time required to hit the one million-song mark, according to a report from bizjournals.com.

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