Spinlet is currently the premier web & mobile music download & streaming service for African content. Its aim is in ensuring the needs of music lovers are meet by allowing them to listen to, share and manage music within user friendly and cost effective mobile & web based platforms.Spinlet has signed a deal with MTN that will allow the subscribers to that network access to the premium version of the music service, according to anonymous sources familiar with the transaction.
Though details of the deal is not yet available,we believe that MTN subscribers will be able to stream ad-free music as well as download for offline listening via the Spinlet app, using special data bundles which will be paid for with MTN airtime.
In 2013, the network struck a deal with Dobox allowing MTN subscribers rent movies for a fee, butstream them without data charges. While 2014 saw the launch of the MTN Music+ app, this upcoming deal with Spinlet suggests that its performance might have left something to be desired, and led them to seek a well heeled partner like Spinlet to chime in on the music side of things.
For Spinlet, the MTN deal comes at the end of an exclusive partnership with Etisalat which expired in April 2014. Etisalat subscribers can still carry on with their Spinlet-specific data bundles as before, but the app is no longer branded “Etisalat Spinlet Music”, which at the time of its unveiling led to speculation that the music streaming service had been acquired by the network.
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