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What is a ringtone? A ring tone is an alert call made by a telephone to indicate the user that some one is calling him. It is a customizable varied sound available on modern mobile phones.

This facility was basically introduced to differentiate between phones in case a user have more than one phoned. A wide variety of ringbones are available to download in the mobile phones. An early age phones were having single ringtone universally. Now there are unsolicited offers from service providers enticing a user with variety of ringbones. Ring tones are also available on Internet for downloading.

However, downloader has a risk of getting trapped with a trojan or virus while downloading the ringtones online. In addition to it, there has been many serious risks like: hidden charges from service provider for downloading a desired ringtone and the possibility of hacking one’s credit card information by fraudulent person. A care should be taken to keep the credit card information to chest and no one should be trusted that easily. Though plenty of legitimate sites are offering free ringtones downloading facility, but these ringtones being single tone does not suit most of the teenagers -say one like tone of Hindi film chak de -chak de which may not available free of cost. The choice of downloading a ringtone from a websites, is limited and these website do not offer wide variety of songs in case of free down loading.

Mobile users can have various other convenient options of downloading ringtones. There is a facility to down load a ringtones via Wireless Application Protocol if mobile phone has this function. It is a convenient to download a ringtone with WAP function. A mobile user can just surf the Internet with few finger strokes and can download desired or available tone.

Generally a service charge is levied from mobile user for a WAP Internet function. Though, the speed of downloading is slower than the other available methods. But convenience of the Internet has to be respected. Most important issue regarding safety of phone, is its safety from the virus and Trojan when the mobile service provider access the website.

The ringtone can directly be downloaded from the kiosks of mobile phone operators. Kiosks are normally available in centers for mobile phone users. In case mobile phone user have any difficulty he can directly contact the service provider or customer care center. Customer care executive will assist the mobile phone user and explain the available service. Mobile to mobile downloading of ringtones can be done through the infrared or bluetooth facility.

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‘If Music be the food of love, give me a Mobile.’ The Phone that shrank the planet is yet to deliver another mammoth revolution fiercely. The global ringtone market is forecasted to grow around $5.2 billion annually. There is an emerging trend among consumers worldwide to seek digital entertainment from their mobile phones. With the soaring popularity of Mobile Music aside, the Industry’s growth is unprecedented due to high end mechanisms and ritzier models coming out every now and then.

Mobile Music, ringtones and downloads are a major fascination amongst the youth. Ring tone industry in particular is reaping fruits of the teenage obsession with ‘gizmos of desire’. This group, mostly between 12 to 25 years old, likes to purchase their favourite tune without having to pay a higher price for a CD. According to sources, the Hip Hop fraternity’s contribution accounts for more than half of all the downloaded ringtones across the globe. The formerly dominant polyphonic ringtones are now available in many different genres; Pop, Rock, Hip Hop, Country, Bollywood and also in a variety of formats in response to the insatiable consumerist demands. Bollywood, India’s film industry by itself generates roughly $1 billion in ring tone revenues annually according to trade experts.

Approximately 1million ring tones are downloaded everyday in India.

With the digital revolution kicking in, the mobile phone industry is proving a point by digging deeper into the music industry with help from technologies like the iPods which can hold more ringtones, longer tunes, and play with the clarity of a DVD. Global companies like Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and Samsung are also striving neck-to-neck to come up with handsets loaded with a variety of appealing features such as FM radios, MP3 players and a good memory capacity as a result of the stiff competition. The Music Industry obviously isn’t cheerful about ringtones taking over the CD market sales wise. It expects you to buy an expensive CD before a cheap ringtone!

Even as the trend goes on, inexorable, the mobile music industry is facing dubious times on the legal front. It is estimated that transfer of music files via Bluetooth has reached an enormous volume, almost thrice the legal way. Fortunately or unfortunately these illegal routes have been serving as money making catalysts rather the other way. In India itself, the mobile piracy business is as big as 30 crore or more at this very moment.

Globally, we are witnessing a time where technology is converging majorly into telecommunications. It is highly unlikely for laid back, conventional music distribution mediums to prevail in a fast moving digital world for long now. Statistics prove that where mobile music downloads is growing by over 50 per cent every year; the growth of legal conventional music is diminishing.

It’s not too far when music companies would acquire artists and film soundtracks only for mobile downloads. With full songs downloads on mobile becoming a successful service worldwide specifically on 3G networks, it simply brings this reality closer.

At current rate Mobile content industry is all geared up to surpass the music industry.