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 ...

Ringback tones on Verizon are about to be a thing of the past. The telecommunications giant recently announced that effective Aug. 26, customers were no longer able to subscribe or purchase ringback ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some 24.6 million U.S. consumers bought a ring tone in the second quarter of 2006, and they showed a clear preference for so-called real tones, or master tones, over polyphonic and mono ring tones, ...

The Open Mobile Alliance has begun work on a key standardization initiative, proposed by Comverse, to create a well-defined application programming interface between carriers and content providers.

Real announced a plan today at the CTIA conference to supply wireless carriers with multimedia ringback tones, allowing their subscribers to send images and video to the cellphones of incoming callers ...

Just noticed a little while ago that Verizon is now offering custom musical ringbacks in test markets in California. In case you haven’t heard, ringbacks are what callers hear when they call you. Like ...

Telecom technology companies WiseSpot and NMS Communications recently announced the successful deployment of the WiseRing personalized ringback tone service with two operators in China. The service ...