The retailer currently offers a mobile service in the US, and announced last December that it would be launching its first European mobile service in Ireland as part of a deal with Telefonica's O2 Ireland. Ireland remains, however, the only European country to offer a Napster mobile service.

Unlike Microsoft and Apple, which have - in the form of Zune and the iPod - their own dedicated portable music players to tie in with music retail models, Napster does not ...