KDDI au's Chaku-uta Full downloads reach 2 million

Having deployed Chaku-uta Full service in November 2004, KDDI au announced the service experienced success with total 2 million downloads by February 5th, 2005.

Chaku-uta Full service allows users to download MP3 full-length songs onto their handsets, using KDDI's high-speed CDMA EV-DO network. The service offers about 13 thousand records for download with the price ranging from JPY200 to JPY300 per song.

Chaku-uta, a 30-second song snippet and a predecessor of Chaku-uta Full, witnessed 1.6 billion downloads by the end of 2004.