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 ...

Real announced a plan today at the CTIA conference to supply wireless carriers with multimedia ringback tones, allowing their subscribers to send images and video to the cellphones of incoming callers ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 has acquired Muzicall, a 9-year-old London company that specializes in ringback tones. The company will be integrated with Real’s mobile entertainment division, which works with carriers ...

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 ...

BMI estimates the U.S ringback tone market to be at $181 million for the year ended June 30, 2010. That represents a 7.2% decline from the $195 million it calculated for a revised 2009 projection. By ...

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 ...

Billboard's digital and mobile correspondent reviews the best and worst developments of the week. By Antony Bruno Plugged Ringback tones never really blew my skirt up. After the saturation of ...