Groove Mobile Teams With TMN Portugal to Meet Growing Demand for Mobile Music

Groove Mobile Teams With TMN Portugal to Meet Growing Demand for Mobile Music

Groove Mobile's Expansion Now Provides 81 Million Wireless Customers Worldwide With Access to Mobile Music

TMN Portugal's 5 Million Subscribers Have Direct Access to Tunes on Major Labels, Top Independents, and From Local Portuguese Musicians

BEDFORD, Mass., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Groove Mobile, the world's leading mobile music commerce platform, is teaming with TMN Portugal to power its mobile music download service. Packed with the latest technology that music fans demand, the Groove Mobile platform gives TMN Portugal's 5 million customers the ability to download full music tracks direct to mobile phones. With this launch, Groove Mobile further extends their global reach, now having access to 81 million mobile phone subscribers worldwide.

"TMN Portugal is teaming up with Groove Mobile because their innovative features and leading technology make them an important partner for the mobile music service," stated Miguel Geraldes, TMN Business Unit Director of Data and Content. "TMN is committed to providing customers with the world-class products they demand, and our new mobile music service delivers the latest tunes, hottest artists and best music features right to the phone."

With full-length tracks from Warner, Sony BMG, EMI, V2, DRA, The Orchard, and Beggars Group, TMN Portugal's customers will now have access to a library of complete songs across multiple music genres. Customers will also have access to a wide variety of songs by Portuguese musicians as well as catalogs from local independent labels. And with Groove Mobile's advanced features, subscribers are able to access multiple charts, receive recommendations based on purchase history, sideload music previously purchased online or from CD's as well as browse, preview, and download smash hits from a huge number of artists. The music service also features a la carte and bundled pricing.

"The TMN Portugal mobile music service extends our worldwide leadership in bringing the best features to the growing number of music fans who prefer listening to music on mobile phones," stated Adam Sexton, Vice President, Marketing and Product Management, Groove Mobile. "Our constant innovations, including music recommendations based on purchase history, have made Groove Mobile the choice of music fans across the globe."

Groove Mobile also powers the award winning Sprint Music Store, the first full track download service to launch in the United States. In addition, independent wireless analysts as well as US and UK music consumers report favoring Groove Mobile powered music services because of their ease of use and innovative features.

ABOUT TMN

Created in March 1991, TMN is a subsidiary of the Portugal Telecom Group and the leading mobile telecommunications provider in Portugal, with more than 5 million costumers.

Investing in the ongoing diversification of solutions tailored to individual and professional needs, TMN makes technological innovation and orientation towards the client drive its overall activity, supported by constant investments to strengthen the network coverage and the quality of service.

TMN has a history of leading the mobile market in Portugal with attractive, advanced services. TMN made history when it became the first operator to launch video call mobile service within the Portuguese market, simultaneously becoming the 3rd operator to launch this service in Europe. To date, TMN has launched a set of innovative 3G services, such as video-calling, video-mail, video-portal, video-call-centre and video-sharing in the Portuguese market. More recently, TMN introduced HSDPA technology (3,5G) that allows higher data transfer speeds for high-speed Internet access and music downloads.

For more information, visit Portugal Telecom on the Internet www.telecom.pt

GROOVE MOBILE

Groove Mobile is the world's leading mobile music service. Groove Mobile's Complete Music Gateway includes Full Track Mobile Downloads, Peer-to-Peer Sharing and Personalized Music Recommendations, in addition to providing Personalized and Programmed Streaming Radio, Music Subscriptions, and more. Groove Mobile launched the world's first secure peer-to-peer distribution in the mobile space, with its pioneering TELL-A-FRIEND feature as well as the first US dual download service direct to handsets and PCs. Groove Mobile's direct download service is available in the US, Canada, UK, EU and Australasia, and provides access to music from all the major labels as well and the largest independent libraries. On the Internet, Groove Mobile is located at www.groovemobile.com

Source: Groove Mobile

CONTACT: Bennet Ratcliff, Ratcliff Strategies, +1-310-261-0408,
bennet@ratcliffstrategies.com, for Groove Mobile; TMN Corporate Communications
Department, +351-217914532, tmn.comunica.@tmn.pt

Web site: http://www.telecom.pt/

Web site: http://www.groovemobile.com/

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