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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Verizon Wireless is already testing a ringback tone service right now in parts of California, but we just got a hot tip from a highly reliable source that T-Mobile has "imminent plans to announce a ...