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 ...

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 ...

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 growth is below some previous estimates and held back by ...

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 19, 2006--MetroPCS Communications, Inc., an innovative regional wireless service provider offering convenient, pay by the month, not by the minute service announces the ...

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.

The service in the form of an audio ad will replace the dial tone when someone makes a call to a mobile. It was recently launched by Biz-Ring with Indonesian mobile operator Telkomsel. The audio ad ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.