O2 are going musical for the festive season, having announced Napster Mobile’s availability on the network in conjunction with Ericsson. Mobile users will be able to “search, browse, preview and purchase full-length songs from Napster’s immense catalog and enjoy Ericsson-aggregated personalization content via their i-mode, WAP and Java-enabled wireless handsets”.

Given that one third of children share music on mobile phones I guess they’ve (the kids) got something to look forward to now. No mention though on what the copy protection elements (if any) would be for Napster’s downloads.