Mobile Music Market to Shift Significantly from Ringtones to Full Track Downloads as Total Revenues Reach $14bn by 2011
Basingstoke, UK (ContentDesk) August 4, 2006 - Annual mobile music revenues will top $14bn worldwide by 2011 according to the latest report from Juniper Research - with Asia Pacific expected to contribute 40% by this time, Europe 27%, North America 18% and Rest of the World 15%.Juniper predicts that with the advent of new technologies and increasing competition fuelling the drive for product innovation, there will be a significant shift in market emphasis from ringtones to over the air (OTA) full track music in the next five years. During the period 2006-2011 total revenues from mobile music services (including ringtones, ringback tones and OTA full track music) will see the proportional market share for ringtones fall from 81% to 51%, with OTA full track music rising from 9% to 32%. This change is courtesy of OTA full track music taking off, as 3G networks and music handsets become more globally accessible and business models evolve, allowing consumers to purchase both PC and mobile music in a single transaction.Bruce Gibson, Research Director at Juniper Research says Until now ringtones have dominated mobile music, but the balance is shifting. Full track music has been the central offering of many 3G service launches around the world and as 3G usage gathers pace, the mobile music market is preparing to enter a new growth phase . Prominent market drivers for the acquisition of full track music are likely to be the dual download facility, increased bandwidth offered by 3G networks and the evolution of the mobile handset into a multi-purpose communications and entertainment device.
Despite this change in emphasis however the ringtone market will continue to flourish. Ringtones wont die away far from it! We believe that continued product innovation within the personalization product sector will ensure ringtones remain popular through the foreseeable future , Bruce adds.A whitepaper and further details of the new study Mobile Music: Ringtones, Full Track Downloads & Streaming, 2006-2011 (third edition) is available at www.juniperresearch.com. Alternatively contact Michele Ince at Telephone +44 (0) 1256 830002/476200. Juniper Research provides analytical services to the global hi-tech communications sector, providing analyst reports, consultancy and industry surveys..
Free Ringtones By Text
The telecom boom has got with it various innovative ways of offering new forms of entertainment. The most common feature that users demand is ringtones. A ringtone is just an alert to an incoming call or an SMS text message. But the mobile service providers have gone one step ahead in order to popularize their business and provide innovative ringtones to their subscribers. This has indeed lead to a great boost in the mobile phone business.
Initially, when the ringtones could not be downloaded directly from the Internet and the market penetration was less than it is now, ringtones would be passed on to users via text messages.
It's still a very simple and easy form of sending ringtones, especially as many users still use old handsets. And with the popularity of this feature, it has evolved from a paid service to a free add-on feature to users.
The procedure for getting ringtones via text message is very simple. The service providers use a SMS number wherein...
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Ringtones Made Easy - Unwired Appeal launches ToneGuys Ringtones and the Adaptive Content Server (ACS)
Unwired Appeal announced the launch of a new mobile content portal/website - www.toneguys.com - supplying ringtones, graphics, and java games to North American cell phone users. At the core of the new service is the Adaptive Content Server (ACS), an innovative mobile content platform that automatically detects a cell phone's capabilities and optimizes mobile content before transferring it to the phone. "We were looking for a way to make the customer experience more streamlined and user-friendly", recalls Keary Griffin, Unwired Appeal co-founder and director of technology. "Not everyone has their cell phone model number and capabilities written on the back of their hand. ToneGuys and ACS take the guess-work out by retrieving the information from the phone itself." New users at ToneGuys receive a basic WAP-link that when accessed allows ACS to instantaneously retrieve and store the precise cell phone parameters.
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Free Alltel Ringtones
A phone service company needs to be well equipped with the latest technology to ensure better service and good customer support. To meet the growing needs of cell phone users, phone service providers must keep up with the pace of growing technology and must upgrade regularly to satisfy the customer's needs. Since competition is high in the communications field and customers are always on the lookout for better service, many customers don't mind paying extra to get efficient service from a different provider. So keeping all this in mind, phone service companies should be on their toes to ensure customer satisfaction, because in the end, that is what counts!
Alltel is a telecommunications company that provides various services like wireless, local telephone, Internet and broadband service to customers. Alltel is the largest regional mobile phone company in the U.S., and the fifth largest mobile phone company overall.
Alltel is a product of Allied telephone co. and Mid-Continent...
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Free Downloadable Ringtones
Today, in the age of the telecom revolution, cell phones have become a common sight. With mobiles, come a lot of personalized services and features. One of the most popular features is downloadable and customized ringtones. Many cell phone users like to have a special ringtone not only to identify his own phone, but also to identify the caller even without looking at the number. Ringtones are very popular with high school and college aged kids, who lead the market in terms of ringtone downloads.
With the increase in the usage of monophonic and polyphonic ringtones, and with the ever-increasing demand for more ringtones, many portals and Web sites started to provide such tones online.
Initially, most of the sites charged for the ringtones, or had a catch involved. But people wanted more and more for free, thus the concept of free downloadable ringtones was born.
Today, there are hundreds and thousands of sites providing all kinds of ringtones. This includes...
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Funny Ringtones - Splendid Tunes For Hours Of Laughs
Ringtones started off as bad electronic sounding music that was really just the melody for a popular song.
Some of these ringtones were recognizable and some of them were just funny.
It was fun in the beginning to listen to the small short snippets of the song and try to identify it.
However nows when a phone plays a song, the song is unmistakable and normally has words to go along with it.
Of course people inevitable got bored with only have songs as ringtones on their phones and new funny ringtones were created, well funny for some people.
Most of these new funny ringtones are weird little men with scary voices that yell and swear at you to answer your phone.
These funny ringtones can be found in a variety of accents and with a variety of commands and insults accompanying the demand that you answer your phone.
Personally I find these amusing though a bit immature, but hey everyone has to be a little...
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