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Verizon Wireless has announced yesterday that they are no longer charging the $15 monthly fee for music downloading service. The decision was made in conjunction with the launch of the Chocolate, a new cell phone with an iPod look-alike design, featuring an iPod-like navigator wheel, with a memory card that can store up to a 1000 songs… Pretty cool.

As you know Verizon Wireless offers what is called VCAST Service which is the world's largest over-the-air music download service with over 1.3 millions songs which customers can preview, play and download straight to their phones. And to think all of this is now possible to access for free. Well, almost... Every VCAST Music-enabled phone customer can download songs to their cellular phones for $1.99 per song plus air-time or to download music straight to their pc for only $0.99 and then transfer the music to their cellular phone. I personally prefer the latter; after I download the song to my pc, I send the song to my cell phone via Bluetooth... Very quick and easy to do…

When downloading a song with your cell phone you will actually receive two copies of every song: one for your cell-phone and one for your PC. And get this…Artists including the Fugees, Shakira, Green Day, Black Eyed Peas, John Legend, Sean Paul and Nelly Furtado have selected Verizon Wireless to give their fans exclusives song and concert downloads… Not bad, right?