Microsoft and Bouygues Telecom team up for mobile music service

Bouygues Telecom in association with Microsoft will launch a new mobile music service in France in 2007.

Microsoft and Bouygues Telecom recently announced that they will collaborate to launch a new mobile music service in France in 2007. Bouygues Telecom will incorporate MS Windows Media software in its mobile music offering to be launched in France in the first half of next year.

According to Bouygues Telecom, the objective of incorporating the technology is to ensure that there is better integration of mobile phones with home digital ecosystems. The company hopes that mobile phones will be able to communicate more easily with other multimedia devices.

Bouygues Telecom will use MS Windows Media's ability to deliver content over the air to mobile phones or through the Internet to Windows-based PCs.

Users will be able to play music, on their Bouygues phones, that has been downloaded from more than 100 online music services around the world. The Bouygues cellphones will also support music content "ripped" from CDs.

Also, the content purchased from the Bouygues service will be compatible for playback on Windows-based computers and more than 120 portable media player models.

Bouygues Telecom will also evaluate the use of other Windows Media platform components including Windows Media Video, Microsoft’s implementation of the SMPTE VC-1 standard, that may be used in future mobile media initiatives.

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