Denmark's TDC starts free music downloads

COPENHAGEN, March 31 (Reuters) - Denmark's leading telecoms operator TDC (TDC.CO: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) said on Monday it would offer free music downloads to its mobile phone and broadband Internet customers in cooperation with three major record labels.

EMI, Warner Music (WMG.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) and Sony BMG (6758.T: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz)BERT.UL have signed up for the service along with several small Danish labels.

The service, dubbed PLAY, will offer access to 1 million songs for free, TDC said. (Reporting by Jens Schnabel, writing by Gelu Sulugiuc; Editing by Paul Bolding)