Sprint Nextel to provide Pandora Media radio service to their customers

Sprint Nextel to provide Pandora Media radio service to their customers

US based mobile service provider Sprint Nextel has announced that they are collaborating with Pandora Media to deliver personalized streaming radio service to their customers.

Pandora Media provides a free Internet-based radio service enabling web users to create stations based on their favorite artists and other songs.

Pandora also happens to be one of those web services which were banned by the US department of defense on their network because of high bandwidth consumption.

Sprint Nextel said that their deal with Pandora would make their service available beyond the computers.

They would be providing this service for free for the first 30 days of use. After that the company would charge an additional $2.99 per month with a Sprint data plan.

In the beginning they would be offering this service on five phone models. Sprint Nextel aims to offer this service on all their high-speed data phones by the end of next month.

Pandora founder Tim Westergren added his views on this new deal: “We knew that if we wanted to be radio with a capital ‘R,’ we have to be everywhere, and not just on the Internet. We knew we had to make it mobile.”