Slacker Web Radio Service Launches in Canada

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on January 14, 2010 - 12:09pm.

San Diego - Slacker, the personalized streaming radio service, announced on Thursday that it is now available in Canada, although under somewhat different terms than it is offered in the U.S.

The free, basic service will be available to Canadians for 30 days, after which time they will have to pay a $4 USD per month subscription fee; U.S. users are able to stick with the ad-supported free service indefinitely.

The company said told Billboard the different terms were due to the fact that the ad market in Canada is not as mature as that in the U.S., and because rival Pandora isn't live there yet.

The Canadian version of Slacker is now available on PCs, Android and BlackBerry, although the company said an iPhone application is coming soon.

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