Rob Lewis is a master of timing. Having sold an internet venture at the height of the dotcom boom, the chief executive of Omnifone is now using some of the millions from the deal to build a mobile music business just as the market begins to take off.
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Rob Lewis talks to Maija Palmer about how his unknown start-up became the new best friend of big music labels
This is a lucrative but challenging proposition: the mobile music market is expected to be worth about $11bn by 2011, but it is dominated by some of the world’s biggest and most aggressive technology companies, including Nokia and Apple.
