Really wish Public Mobile would bring back the Siren Music Service. That was one of the reasons besides the price of plans that I joined before the Telus takeover
Probably too costly like CaN mentioned. You can get spotify or google music usually on deals (got my google for 2 years 50% off ... I shouldve done the 4years ... didnt think I would like it this much. LOL).
I don't beleive Candian providers are allowed to zero-rate particular services currently due to net neutrality regulations. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
If the service didn't count toward the data usage, then I'm definitely interested! However, as everyone said, there are currently way too many music streaming services, so it's going to be hard to bring it back in such a competitive market.
In Quebec a Quebec only mobile provider Videotron does offer data free music streaming on approved apps by them. Although it's only on their higher end plans. It's really their expensive plans but they offer data free music streaming. I have a friend on it said it's good that doesn't use his data but kills him in his monthly bill.
I don't think streaming music services are as viable these days as once they were. A growing number of phones now have integrated FM (sometimes also AM) radio hardware. It's starting to become a de-facto "standard" - at least on mid-/high-end smartphones - partly because it's a nifty and useful feature for customers, partly because it's a really cheap and easy feature for device manufacturers to include. Listen to radio as much as you like without consuming any cellular data. And these days even the cheapest and smallest of smartphones have at least 8GB storage capacity. And an SD card slot which can store 32GB or more. Meaning that you can easily load your phone with playlists and hundreds (even thousands) of hours of music - far more music than you could ever listen to on a single battery charge. You could hear whatever random/genre stuff they play on your radio stations, you could hear whatever playlist stuff you've stored on your device (quantity of stuff and playback quality which vastly exceeds the mightiest iPod/MP3 players of yesteryear, lol), or you could even mix things up and do both. This, I think, is what basically killed the niche Siren used to fill: there's basically no longer any demand to support it.
The use of streaming music is illegal these days (thanks net neutrality nutjobs) because preferential pricing means something like Siren will never exist again
