Chaoticom announced today that Orange has selected Chaoticom as the exclusive provider of mobile music downloading services on the Orange UK network. Orange will launch the service, branded “Music Player”, on July 1, 2004.
Chaoticom’s award winning Mobile Music Platform enables music downloads to more handset models than any mobile music solution in the world. A growing range of handsets are supported, including the Orange SPV E200 smartphone.
“We selected Chaoticom because they have the best technology and best total solution,” said Mark Ashford, Head of Entertainment at Orange UK. “The user experience is excellent and we are excited to be offering it to such a wide audience.”
Using Music Player, customers can browse, preview, and download tracks directly to their mobile handsets.
“We’re very excited to be launching a service at Orange UK,” said Bathsheba J. Malsheen, President and CEO of Chaoticom. “Orange has shown great leadership in multimedia handsets making them the best partner for us in the biggest music market in Europe.”
Chaoticom’s Mobile Music Solution enables mobile operators to
offer full-track music downloading services on more than 19 handset models on today’s mobile data networks. Chaoticom’s revolutionary KOZ encoding format makes real-time high-quality over-the-air mobile music downloads possible. KOZ technology consumes significantly less battery power and requires less processing power than other solutions available today. The solution was awarded “Best Contribution to Mobile
Music 2004″ by the leading industry group, The Mobile ntertainment Forum.