Yes but that won't be so easy in the UK...

Largest operator there is Orange. Orange has their own full track music dowload client for mobile devices and make money from selling this on. Surely the iPod would be a threat ? In addition, they promote Microsoft Windows Mobile-based Smartphones as signature devices, so there's another possible blocking issue. And finally, they and operators such as Three, are heavily pushing everyone on to their UMTS networks - quite rightly so after the European governments held the telcos to ransom over the 3G licenses years ago, and the silly buggers paid billions for them. Promoting a 2.5G, Apple device with the ability to hurt their music download revenues does not make sense.

Therefore they might find it tough to find a decent partner in the UK (with good coverage and the reputation which will attract customers).

Posted By: Steve in Holland, Jan 10, 10:32:02