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 ...

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 ...

Verizon Wireless announced today it is the first national carrier to offer Ringback Tones - short clips of real music that replace the standard ring callers hear when they call the phone of a Ringback ...

Verizon Wireless is encouraging customers to get into the spirit of the season with a selection of holiday music available for their wireless phones. This season, Verizon Wireless has created Holiday ...

“LISTEN makes ringback tones more fun and useful. LISTEN is the first direct-to-consumer smartphone app that allows consumers to quickly and easily customize their callers' experiences with music.

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 ...

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 ...