Tone Selected
A ringback tone, or tone that plays for the caller in place of the standard phone ringing sound on cell phones, must be selected by the phone's owner. Typically, they are purchased from the cellular phone company, but they can also be downloaded online or sent from phone to phone. In order for the ringback tone to work, it must be selected as a ringback tone and not as a standard ringtone.
Tone Set
The owner of the phone must also set the ringback tone to play before it will work. The ringback tone can be set to play for every caller, for a group of certain callers or for one specific caller. Most phones will allow a different ringback tone to be selected for each and every person in the phone's address book. Some phones also offer options that allow a ringback tone to be set to play during certain hours. For example, a phone could be set to play a classical music ringback tone to all callers during business hours, and a more fun personalized rock song on evenings and weekends.
Tone Plays
When a call is made to the phone, instead of hearing the typical ringing or intermittent buzzing sound, the caller will hear the ringback tone. The tone plays until the call is either answered, the caller hangs up or the call is sent to voicemail. Since most ringback tones are popular songs that can last four to five minutes, the ringback tone plays only a part of the song so that the caller does not have to wait for the song to end to leave a message if the phone is not answered.
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