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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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.

This really blows my mind. A couple weeks ago when Verizon Wireless announced the trial of Ringback tones in Cali., it was received by everyone on this board as stupid, or just another way to steal ...

Everybody is a lot more excited about these ringback tones than I expected. I’m sort of dreading them, myself, as I’ll now be forced to endure everyone’s humorous or nostalgic choices of music as I ...

Starting in early 2013, customers of T-Mobile Germany, Austria and Czech Republic will be able to further customize their mobile experience by replacing the standard tone with their favorite music ...