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Yamaha to Provide Polyphonic Ringing Melody Distribution Service to Telefónica Móviles España.
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Hamamatsu City, July 1, 2003—Yamaha Corp. and Yamaha Hazen Música (Madrid, Spain) are pleased to announce that from the end of June they will start providing a polyphonic ringing melody distribution service to the mobile phones with *i-mode wireless Internet service to the customer of Telefónica Móviles España, the mobile unit of Spain`s former national telecommunications operator. The Company has integrated i-mode contents in MoviStar e-moción service.
Yamaha opens a new ringing melody distribution site aiming to extend and strengthen its service along with Telefónica Móvile's launch of the *i-mode wireless Internet service in Spain on June 2003.
At present 34,7 million people use cell phone of Spain`s total population of 41 million people. Of these, Telefónica Móviles has the largest market sharer with 18.7 million subscribers.
The new service will start with a line-up of 1,000 ringing melodies mainly tunes from Spain, the U.S. and U.K .including more local tunes added to line-ups by Yamaha Hazen Música. The melodies are available in "Tonos y Logos" section at MoviStar e-moción menu.
Yamaha Corp. is one of the leading providers of ringing melodies to mobile phones, offering a choice of more than 6,000 songs to about 3.2 million subscribers in Japan as of May, 2003.
Yamaha haa intended to expand the ringing melodies service to mobile phone in Spain by utilizing this experience and its extensive archive of song data with the distribution of many types of high quality, polyphonic ringing tones.. |
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| Outline of service |
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| Name of service |
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Yamaha Supertonos |
| Outline of service |
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Distribution of polyphonic ringing melodies to the users of MoviStar e-mocion(* i-mode) contents service. |
| Service area |
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Spain |
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Metered at 1 euro/melody |
| Number of files |
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1,000 |
* 'i-mode' is the trade mark of NTT DoCoMo.
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| Outline of Telefónica Móviles |
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| Name |
Telefónica Móviles España S.A. |
| Established |
1988 (1995:launch of MoviStar) |
| Chairman& CEO |
Javier Aguilera |
| Main business |
Telefónica Móviles España (www.empresa.movistar.com), the Telefónica Móviles Group's Spanish market operator, has over 18.7 million customers and a wide range of services and data applications, which use the latest mobile technology such as GPRS. Telefónica Móviles (www.telefonicamoviles.com) is one of the world's leading mobile telephony groups, with operations in 14 countries and a customer base of around 45 million people. Telefónica Móviles' shares trade on the Madrid and New York Stock Exchanges under the ticker TEM. |
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| Outline of Yamaha Hazen Música S.A. |
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Yamaha Hazen Música S.A. |
| Established |
1986 |
| President |
Hitoshi Atsumi |
| Main Business |
Distribute Yamaha musical instruments and sound reinforcement equipments in Spain & Portugal. |
| Capital |
1.5 million euros(about 208 million yen) *1 euro=139yen |
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For further information, please contact
Yamaha Corporation
Corporate Communications Group,
Public Relations Division
TEL. +81-3-5488-6601
FAX +81-3-5488-5060
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