Canadians love music, eh? At least that is the hope of communications service provider SaskTel, which has signed a deal with Groove Mobile that will enable its customers to access a new mobile music store.

The SaskTel Mobile Music Store will provide full-track music downloads direct to mobile handsets, access to multiple charts and downloadable album art. The service will enable users to browse, preview and shop for selections. According to the companies, the music service also will support dual downloading in which customers purchase music over the air and download a copy of the track to their handset and get a copy delivered to their PC. This feature enables customers to play the song on their laptop, transfer it to an MP3 player or burn it onto a CD.

The store will feature more than 300,000 music tracks from artists on the Sony BMG, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group labels.

The company plans to offer the SaskTel Mobile Music Store as a preloaded feature on the Samsung A920 and A900 and Sanyo 7500 handsets. Additional handsets are on tap, SaskTel says.

Groove is the technology behind Sprint Nextel’s Sprint Music Store, which enables customers to download full-track selections over the air (OTA). The Sprint service recently celebrated its 1-year anniversary, announcing that more than 8 million songs have been downloaded since the inception of the service.

While Groove is committed to its business with the carriers, the company also has expressed interest in exploring an off-portal business, especially in Europe.

Source-  wirelessweek  Wireless Mobile Telecom