Nokia opens online music store in Germany

HELSINKI (Reuters) -
Nokia (NOK1V.HE) opened on Monday its
online music store in Germany, the second such store for the
world's largest cellphone maker, which plans to open the stores
in nine more countries by mid-2008.

Nokia's German music store will charge 1 euro ($1.52) per
track, compared with the largest online music retailer Apple's
(AAPL.O) iTunes' 0.99 euros charge.

Nokia launched the online music store in Britain last
November, but delayed launches at other large European markets
by several months.

Now it plans to open the store in seven more European
countries, including France, Italy, Spain, along with stores in
Australia and Singapore, by the end of the first half of 2008.

It also said it would expand further in Europe and Asia in
the second part of the year.

Nokia is the first cellphone maker to move aggressively to
content space with its music stores and new Internet services
strategy under the Ovi brand.

(Reporting by Tarmo Virki and Agnieszka Flak)

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