iculture compares: streaming music service of KPN, T-Mobile and Vodafone – iculture

Today announced a Vodafone a collaboration with Napster. This service, which was launched in 1999 as infamous and illegal music sharing service, is now part of the American Rhapsody and can be seen as a competitor to Spotify and Deezer. With this collaboration offer all three major Dutch providers now a streaming music to their subscription. But which provider is actually the best you

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Opportunities streaming music

Vodafone does it with Napster, KPN with Spotify and T Mobile is committed to Deezer. All these music services have one thing in common: you can stream in the paid subscription unlimited music from a huge catalog of music files. The differences are found mainly in the details. Thus, T-Mobile offers via Deezer’s largest music library, but is the only KPN where you get extra data to stream Spotify music. First, let’s begin to drop off the three services together:

	Spotify Premium	Deezer Premium +	Napster
Price p / month	€ 9.99	€ 9.99	€ 9.95
Music Offer	20 million	35 million	34 million
Bitrate	320 kbps max	max 320kbps	192 kbps
Webplayer	yes	yes	yes
Offline caching	yes	yes	yes
Custom music upload	No	yes	no
Lyrics	yes	yes	No
Last.fm scrobbling	yes	yes	No
Mobile Apps	iOS, Android, Windows Phone	iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone	iOS, Android, Windows Phone

If we look at the table well, we notice that the services are all equally expensive. It is also clear that Napster still drop some stitches. The bitrate of the music files is lower (192 kbps) and the service does not support lyrics and Last.fm scrobbling.

Spotify and Deezer are evenly matched, although the range of music from Spotify is smaller, represented almost all the popular artists. Only with obscure music you have previously successfully with Deezer. What could be important: with Deezer you can upload your own music collection and make it available for streaming. That can at Spotify, unless you are willing to apply a few tricks and you are sure that all the music tags with deutsche Gründlichkeit have in order.

Clearly Deezer on paper that has the best cards, followed closely by Spotify. But what about when we look at the offer of the Dutch providers?

KPN

KPN is Spotify Premium subscription only free for people with the most expensive subscription (Carefree Premium € 54 per month). In other subscriptions you pay for a Spotify Premium subscription € 10 per month, the same amount that requires Spotify itself for its premium service. Yet there is certainly value to your Spotify Premium subscription to run through KPN: You get 1500 MB per month extra on top of your data bundle. It allows you a lot of songs streaming over 3G or 4G. Another nice feature is the additional option that Spotify offers KPN. Have a Spotify Premium subscription, you can easily connect to your account KPN account. Vodafone and T-Mobile you will have to cancel the current subscription and streaming need resealing, which is much more cumbersome

T-Mobile

T-Mobile calling with big letters” unlimited music streaming with Deezer, but this is a bit misleading. The music you over 3G or 4G streaming with Deezer app is something I think on your data plan. The lowercase letters can be read that T-Mobile is still mostly assumes that you are streaming over Wi-Fi or the songs for caches you walk out the door. Anyway, the offer of T-Mobile is not wrong: get with the Deezer Fixed option you access to Deezer Premium + with a discount of € 4 on the monthly price. You will not pay € 9.99 but only € 5.99 per month. Do you think your mobile streaming behavior falls within your data plan, then this discount a nice windfall.

Vodafone

> Vodafone does from April 7 to Napster. However, the monthly price is cheaper than if you hire directly from Napster: € 9.95 per month. You should especially have the introductory offer: buy a single bundle of 100 MB (à € 3) or join a new subscription off, then the first six months of Napster Vodafone free. We count that as by then it will cost you a abonnementje Napster Vodafone € 4.98 per month (1 year subscription), or € 7.46 per month (2-year subscription). Napster because it makes high against its competitors seems this offer only interesting for those looking to try a half year Napster and timely terminates the service, or who goes for an annual subscription with Vodafone. Vodafone has promised to inform customers in advance when the half-year period expires.

Conclusion streaming music over providers

If you are about to take out a new subscription and you’re definitely plan to use streaming music, you’ll make an interesting choice. Both KPN and T-Mobile with additional data have discount on the price per month, respectively, an interesting proposition, while working with services that are matched. Vodafone is selling more difficult: who is going for a jaarabonnementje may well try out the half year free Napster, but you’re usually pretty faithful in your provider choice than the partnership with Napster is still less interesting

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