Sunnyvale, Calif. -- mBlox, a Sunnyvale-based developer of mobile-payments technology, said that it has partnered with New-Visions, a U.K.-based mobile marketing services firm, to launch a number of off-portal mobile music download services. The services will initially be offered in the U.K. through Vodafone and other wireless carriers. They will offer one-fee mobile music downloads that combine the price of the song with the cost of the bandwidth used to deliver song data. Songs available will be provided by New-Visions label partners like V2 Records and Ministry of Sound, whose artists include Stereophonics and The Rakes.
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