Telstra is continuing to weigh up plans to enter the ringback tones market, but the telco harbours concerns that Australians may not be enthusiastic adopters of the service. Ringback tones allow ...

RealNetworks, attempting to reinvent itself with a new slate of products, is working on new type of ringback tone that works like an audio status update, delivered via phone. Ringback tones, for the ...

What's that? Not sure what they are? That's an obstacle... The growth of ringback tones in Europe is set to mean hundreds of millions of euros in extra revenues for mobile phone operators - but that ...

T-Mobile today launched Caller Tunes, the first ringback tone service in the U.S. to be available nationwide. Ringback tones replace the typical ring that callers hear as they are waiting for someone ...

Verizon Wireless has launched a Ringback Buddies Facebook application to monetize from the social networking channel. With ringback tones, people who call a consumer's wireless phone hear music ...

Those tunes that play while you wait for someone to pick up are expected to generate $4.7 billion in revenue for mobile operators by 2012, according to new research. Marguerite Reardon started as a ...

Despite their apparent similarities, ringtones and ringback tones are quite different animals. The former blasts everyone around you with an example of your excellent or hilarious taste whenever there ...

So ringback tones—basically customized audio clips that callers hear when they dial your number instead of the usual ringing sound (sort of like a ringtone in reverse or something like that)—are huge ...

For those who thought cell phones couldn't get any more annoying, brace yourself. Personalized "ringback tones" are on the way. A ringback tone is what people dialing a telephone number hear between ...

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DENVER (Billboard) - As the cash cow that was the ringtones market slowly heads to pasture, the music industry is turning to a new mobile stud -- ringback tones. Sign up here. Ringbacks -- the music ...

Tired of waiting for Google Music? How tired? If you've been pushed to your wit's end, and you're willing to give RealNetworks one last chance to actually impress you, Sprint's got a new service for ...