Articles tagged with: Ringback Tones

Deutsche Telekom to Offer RingBack Tones in Three Countries

RealNetworks today announced it has been selected by Deutsche Telekom, to offer a fully managed ringback tone service in Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic. more

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Singapore Networks Agree on Single Brand for Ringback Tones

Singapore's three mobile networks have agreed to collaborate on the branding of ringback tones - and have collectively announced the adoption of a common brand called 'Connecting Tones'. more

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Mobile content grows on social networks, but ringback tones, music still top demand

The past year has seen a steady rise in the consumption of [mobile] premium content on social networks and communities, as well as other new applications such as location-based services and mobile advertising. Ringback tones and mobile music, however, still remain the top revenue earners, accounting for about 21.4 percent (US$6.2 billion) of the region's mobile content revenues in 2008, and are expected to continue to top mobile operators' and content providers' billings in the next five to six years. more

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Vodafone to Expand Ringback Tone Deal into Emerging Markets

Vodafone has signed a deal with India based OnMobile to offer ringback tones in its emerging markets. Currently, millions of Vodafone Essar customers in India use OnMobile's ring back tone service, which will be rolled out across Vodafone's other emerging markets from the Spring. more

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USA Ringback Tones to Grow to $235 Million in 2009

Music performing rights organization, Broadcast Music (BMI) has published its annual mobile music market revenue projections for 2009 and finalized its earlier figures for 2008. BMI projects that ringback tones will surpass $235 million in U.S. retail sales during calendar year 2009, up 15% from BMI's 2008 market estimate of $205 million and 68% from BMI's 2007 estimate of $140 million. BMI estimates that more than 10 million U.S. subscribers are signed up for ringback-tone services with their wireless carriers. Ringback-tone services have an industry-wide average penetration rate of approximately 4%. Subscriber penetration by carrier for ringback tones ranges from less than 2% to a high of 9%. more

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Verizon Wireless Launches Ringback Tones for Business Users

Ringback tones, a mainstay for savvy consumers to customize their mobile phones, have made their way to business culture after US network, Verizon Wireless announced the availability of Business Ringback Tones to let organizations replace the generic ring callers hear when contacting a wireless business number with a customized message. more

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Indian Mobile Operators - $1 Billion Left on Table?

A report by Strategy Analytics advises established Indian mobile operators to avoid the risk of missing out on the US$1 billion in value-added service revenues predicted for 2012, if they continue to focus their efforts on gaining new subscribers, without responding to the requirements of the MVAS market. more

Ringback Tones Worth $4.7 Billion in 2012

Ringback tones are on track to become the most attractive mobile content category by 2012, according to new market research from MultiMedia Intelligence. With worldwide revenue nearly tripling to $4.7 billion, ringback tones will fall just short of mobile gaming revenue in capturing the largest share of the mobile premium content market (not including mobile video and mobile TV). more

Piracy Affecting Indian Ringtone Market

The Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) believes the Indian mobile entertainment market is creating the foundation for a successful ad-funded mobile entertainment environment. With a burgeoning mobile content market driven by personalisation and ringback tones, the introduction of 3G will pave the way for rich-media mobile entertainment services to be delivered to the mass market and encourage spend in the market's nascent mobile advertising industry to shift from banners ads and messaging onto music and games. more

Don't Answer that Phone Call - Just Yet

Turkish operator, Turkcell has launched "TonlaKazan" ("Tone&Win") which offers branded ringback tones to its subscribers. The customers then earn airtime credits by letting callers to their mobile phone listen to the ringback tone - which is basically an advert. more

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