America Online Launches New AOL Music Mobile Club for AT&T Wireless mMode Customers.Business Editors DULLES, Va. & REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 3, 2003 America Online See AOL. , Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. )-- Now Users Can Access The Web's Most Popular Music Destination While On The Go America Online, Inc., the world's leading interactive services company, and AT&T Wireless (NYSE: AWE) announced today the launch of the AOL(R) Music Mobile Club on AT&T Wireless mMode(sm) service. The AOL Music Mobile Club extends the top features of AOL's music offerings to mMode subscribers and allows them to access news and information on popular and new artists, as well as buy related downloadable ring tones from their wireless phone. "We're excited to extend our relationship with AT&T Wireless to bring the AOL Music Mobile Club to mMode subscribers and forge new avenues for consumers to discover, experience and purchase music-related products," said Dan Servos, Vice President of Premium Mobile Services for America Online. "Just as AOL led the way in building AOL Music into the number one music destination online, we're excited to be at the forefront of the burgeoning mobile entertainment market with a wide-range of wireless applications. We look forward to expanding the AOL Music Mobile Club with even more great features such as richer-sounding ring tones, streaming music and music video clips A short video presentation. ." "AOL Music Mobile Club enriches our comprehensive music portfolio by combining major music companies in one place on the wireless phone," said John Bunyan, Senior Vice President of AT&T Wireless Mobile Multimedia Services. "The addition of the AOL Music Mobile Club speaks to the increasing popularity of mobile music services, as more artists are looking to extend their reach beyond conventional means, and as phones with richer audio and imaging capabilities penetrate the marketplace." "More and more music fans are going online to enjoy premiere, on-demand access to their favorite music and the biggest music debuts from today's most popular artists, and we are thrilled to be able to now extend the AOL Music experience beyond the PC to wireless phones," said Bill Wilson, Vice President and General Manager of AOL Music. "We've already had a tremendous response to ring tones from artists like TLC TLC total lung capacity; thin-layer chromatography. TLC abbr. 1. thin-layer chromatography 2. . The launch of the AOL Music Mobile Club makes it easy for music fans to find great mobile-ready content and enjoy our popular music features all in one place -- on the Web or on their phone." Each week, the AOL Music Mobile Club spotlights the latest chart-topping performers from pop, rock, hip-hop and more. Other features of the AOL Music Mobile Club on mMode include: -- Three complimentary ring tone or phone graphic downloads a month, plus the ability to buy additional downloads from AOL's catalog; -- The ability to listen to music samples; -- Alerts notifying members of new featured artists and new AOL Music Mobile Club offerings; -- Quiz-A-Go-Go, which tests club members' knowledge of different artists; -- The Artist Discovery Network, which allows members to learn about new, up-and-coming bands; and much more. Pricing and Availability The AOL Music Mobile Club is available now for AT&T Wireless customers with mMode service for an additional $3.49 per month. AT&T Wireless customers can register for the AOL Music Mobile Club from their wireless phone by accessing mMode, going to the "Entertainment Channel," navigating (networking, hypertext) navigating - Finding your way around. Often used of the Internet, particularly the World-Wide Web. A browser is a tool for navigating hypertext documents. to the "Music" menu, selecting "AOL Music Mobile Club," then following the prompts. For more information visit AOL Keyword: Mobile Music, or go to www.aol.com/anywhere or www.attws.com. In addition to the AOL Music Mobile Club, AT&T Wireless and America Online also offer a wide-range of wireless services including the AOL(R) Instant Messenger AOL's instant messaging service. See AIM and instant messaging. (TM) (AIM(R)) service for wireless phones; access to AOL Mail and other AOL content including the latest news, financial information, driving directions, and local event and entertainment information; and mobile downloadable content, including a library of ring tones and graphics. About AT&T Wireless AT&T Wireless (NYSE: AWE) is the second-largest wireless carrier, based on revenues, in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . With 20.859 million subscribers, and full-year 2002 revenues exceeding $15.6 billion. AT&T Wireless will continue delivering advanced high-quality mobile wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. services, voice or data, to businesses and consumers, in the U.S. and internationally. For more information, please visit us at www.attwireless.com. About AOL Music AOL Music, a division of America Online, Inc., reaches the largest audience of online music fans in the world through a rich array of programming, products and services that make it easy to discover, experience, listen to and buy music online. AOL Music's offerings are available at the number one Internet music destination, the AOL Music Channel, and throughout the AOL service, AOL Broadband Services See broadband and broadband service provider. and AOL's family of Web brands including Netscape, CompuServe, AIM, ICQ ("I Seek You") A conferencing program for the Internet from Mirabilis, Tel Aviv, Israel (www.icq.com). It provides interactive chat, e-mail and file transfer and can alert you when someone on your predefined list has also come online. , Spinner, Winamp and SHOUTcast. About America Online America Online, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of AOL Time Warner (NYSE: AOL). Based in Dulles, Virginia Dulles, Virginia is an unincorporated census-designated place located in Loudoun County, Virginia, part of the Washington Metropolitan Area. The headquarters of AOL, Orbital Sciences Corporation and ODIN technologies and the former headquarters of MCI Inc. are located in Dulles. , America Online is the world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies and e-commerce services. |
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