What exactly are ring tones and where did they come from?

A ringer or ring tone is just a sound that a phone makes to tell people that they have a phone call. Of course ringtones have been around as long as telephones have been around, it’s just that a long time ago every phone had the same ringtone. They came with the phone. Of course we’re talking about fixed land phones here.

But even in the early days of mobile or cell phones you just got a ring tone with the phone. No options. It sounded like a normal fixed phone ringer too.

But as time progressed things changed. In 1998 in Finland the first commercial ring tones came out. A new service came out called Harmonium. Harmonium allowed users to create monophonic ringers so people could create and download their own ring tone.

That was just the start and it didn’t take too long before large companies saw commercial mileage to be made from ring tones for cell phones and the revolution in ringers began.

By 2005 the ringtone industry generated over $2 billion in revenue, a staggering amount of money for something as simple as a sound made by a mobile phone when someone calls it.

Now of course as we all know it’s quite possible to download free ringers, it’s not necessary to buy them, the companies make their profits in other ways.

So that means for consumers like you it’s quite possible to have a fantastic library of free cell phone ringers so you can change your tone as often as you want. And that’s fun.

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