Napster Over-The-Air Music Subscription Service Now Available Across Extensive New Line of DoCoMo Mobile Phones in Japan

Napster Over-The-Air Music Subscription Service Now Available Across Extensive New Line of DoCoMo Mobile Phones in Japan

Napster Mobile Now Deployed with Nine Carriers Across Asia, the U.S., and Europe on Wide Range of Top Handsets

LOS ANGELES, July 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Napster(R) (NASDAQ:NAPS) confirmed today that the company's unlimited over-the-air (OTA) music subscription service launched with NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest wireless carrier, and is now available across the complete line of DoCoMo's 904i handsets, including new Napster-compatible products from Mitsubishi, Fujitsu, NEC, Panasonic and Sharp. This marks the first-ever deployment of the ground-breaking Napster Mobile service that seamlessly integrates OTA subscription and the PC-based Napster To Go subscription service for one price.

In another first, Napster is also offering the ability to integrate billing for the company's unlimited OTA music subscription service directly into a customer's DoCoMo mobile phone bill, with users of the 904i series handsets able to sign up directly through their handsets and select integrated billing at the time of registration. With the addition of Napster's new integrated OTA service, the company's wireless subscribers in Japan, including those with subscriptions for ringtones, full-length downloads and unlimited OTA, now outnumber its PC-only subscribers in Japan.

Napster Mobile is now live with nine carriers across Asia, the U.S., and Europe -- DoCoMo, KDDI (Japan), AT&T/Cingular, Dobson, SunCom (U.S.), TMN (Portugal), O2 (Ireland), Swisscom (Switzerland), and Claro (Puerto Rico). In addition to DoCoMo's handset partners in Japan, the world's largest cell phone manufacturers are also providing Napster compatible devices in the U.S. and Europe including Motorola, Nokia, Palm, Samsung, LG, SonyEricsson, HTC and Pantech.

"We are very pleased by the progress of Napster Mobile among carriers and handset manufacturers globally. Industry analysts project a dramatic increase in the number of music-enabled mobile phones available globally, and we are seeing that the large majority of these phones, representing hundreds of millions of handsets, will be Napster compatible," said Chris Gorog, Napster's Chairman and CEO. "Napster is uniquely positioned to offer carriers a turnkey, branded music solution which should provide the company with a substantial new growth opportunity."

About Napster

Napster, the pioneer of digital music, offers the ultimate in interactive music experiences, creating better ways to discover, share, acquire and enjoy music -- anytime, anywhere. The company's offerings include "Napster" (http://www.napster.com/) -- the most popular on demand music subscription service in the world; "Freenapster" (http://www.freenapster.com/) -- a unique Web experience offering free on demand music legally; and "Napster Mobile" -- one of the industry's fastest growing mobile music platforms. Headquartered in Los Angeles, Napster's services are available in markets across North America, Europe and Japan.

Safe Harbor Statement

Except for historical information, the matters discussed in this press release, in particular matters related to Napster's relationship with Napster Japan and NTT DoCoMo and other carriers, and the compatibility of the Napster service with current and future mobile phones, are forward-looking statements that are subject to certain risks and uncertainties such as decreased demand for Napster's products and services; failure of Napster products to interoperate with the hardware products of its customers; intense competition; failure to maintain relationships with strategic partners and content providers; and general economic conditions; that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Additional information on these and other factors are contained in Napster's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K as filed with the SEC on June 6, 2007, copies of which are available at the website maintained by the SEC at http://www.sec.gov/. Napster assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements included in this press release.

Copyright (C) 2007 Napster, LLC. All rights reserved. Napster, Napster Mobile, Napster To Go and Napster Light are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Napster, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are owned by their respective owners.

Media Contacts:
Becky Farina
Napster
310-281-5005, becky.farina@napster.com

Jeff Fox
The Blue Shirt Group
415-828-8298, jeff@blueshirtgroup.com

Investor Contacts:
Alex Wellins or Jennifer Jarman
The Blueshirt Group, for Napster
(415) 217-7722
alex@blueshirtgroup.com; jennifer@blueshirtgroup.com

First Call Analyst:
FCMN Contact:

Source: Napster

CONTACT: Media, Becky Farina of Napster, +1-310-281-5005,
becky.farina@napster.com; or Jeff Fox of The Blue Shirt Group,
+1-415-828-8298, jeff@blueshirtgroup.com, for Napster; Investors, Alex
Wellins, alex@blueshirtgroup.com, or Jennifer Jarman,
jennifer@blueshirtgroup.com, +1-415-217-7722, both of The Blueshirt Group for
Napster

Web site:

http://www.napster.com/
http://www.freenapster.com/

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