Aspiro has signed an agreement with LINK Mobility AS on the sale of the business area Mobile Solutions in the Nordic and Baltic countries. The purchase price amounts to NOK 20 m and Aspiro estimates to comple the deal in mid-October. Aspiro thus frees up additional resources for TV and music service WiMP, which before the summer passed 300,000 paying users, three times the amount in the beginning of the year.
The divestment of Mobile Solutions is the final step in a long term process to reposition Aspiro. In order to streamline the company in the direction of music and TV streaming, Aspiro in the last year also sold its former business area Mobile Entertainment and other small businesses. Music streaming service WiMP is the flagship of the new Aspiro, which now consists of business areas Music, TV and Mobile Search.
 
"Aspiro has a very aggressive growth strategy in the music and TV areas. Meanwhile, mobile business services also has great potential and we are sure that LINK...