Zune Pass coming to the UK?

Posted on 19 Jul 2010 at 14:14

Microsoft's Zune Pass music download service - which offers US listeners unlimited downloads for a monthly fee - looks set to come to the UK, several years after it first launched States-side.

The news - which has not yet been confirmed by Microsoft - comes from LiveSide.net reader Greg, who claims to have gained access to a test site which allows UK customers to sign up to a trial subscription to the download service.

The pricing is on a par with other music download services available in the UK: for £8.99 per month you get unlimited access to the songs available in the Zune library, although each download is protected via DRM: if you stop paying your subscription, you lose access to your downloads - although the US version offers ten songs a month for you to keep permanently. A three month subscription option is also available, although strangely it costs the same as three one-month subscriptions at £26.97.

As the site is still unofficial and not actually live there's no way to confirm whether the pricing shown is the level at which it will launch or merely dummy data, to be replaced with the actual figures at launch.

Without a confirmation from Microsoft, there's no way of guessing when the Zune Pass service will launch here in the UK - but it's more than likely designed to coincide with the launch of the Windows Phone 7 series of smartphones due towards the end of this year.

Author: Gareth Halfacree

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