Cingular soliciting Apple for music service

A lot of the mobile phone providers keep talking about whipping out their own music services, and Cingular is certainly one of them. Yesterday, however, they announced that they're actually soliciting Apple for a mobile, downloadable iTMS service – which actually isn't that surprising since they kinda have an exclusive deal with that ROKR phone to begin with.

What also isn't surprising is that Cingular, in staying true to their 'raising the bar' slogan, is hoping that they can offer music downloads at "slightly higher" prices than users pay through the regular iTMS. Apparently all their market research, or rather their insatiable pockets, have concluded they can take mobile music consumers for a ride that can be had cheaper elsewhere.

[via iPodnn]