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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

RealNetworks is preparing to roll out a new app and service called “Listen” that will let iOS and Android users set up and manage ringback tones — music clips and other snippets that play over the ...

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 ...

RealNetworks is reviving the name of an old dot-com era San Francisco startup for a new mobile phone app that will give inbound callers songs or messages to hear instead of 10 to 15 seconds of ringing ...

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 ...

(CNN) – Nigeria’s music industry supplies beats to an entire continent and that music is just a phone call away in the form of a ringback tone. Maybe you’ve heard one but in Nigeria, they’re ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...