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Napster expects to sign a deal with a mobile company to launch its Napster Mobile service in Europe "within a month".

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 currently offer a dedicated device. However, the company is making it a priority to allow users to listen to music away from their PCs.

Napster Europe vice president of sales and marketing Thorsten Schliesche says the mobile market is "a very competitive, crowded market".

"You have to make sure you do the right thing at the right time," he says. "But we're investigating this at the ...

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