Free mobile ring tones

When we think of mobile phones, the first thing that comes to our mind is ring tones. Ring tones give identity to the mobile phones and their users alike. The creation, distribution and billing of ring tones happen to be the fastest growing industries today.

There is rarely a mobile phone user who has never downloaded a ring tone into his phone. There are many sources of acquiring a ring tone for your mobile. The two most common sources are websites and the service providers.

The service providers often allow customers to download free ring tones from their website. At times, they also issue a printed catalogue, containing the codes and names of the various ring tones, which are offered for free. The service providers also inform their customers about the free ring tones they are offering, through messages and recorded calls. All this is done to encourage the customers to download various ring tones. Though the service providers generally do not charge for the ring tone, but they do charge for the short messages that are used to download the ring tone. Thus, the service providers stand to gain a lot of revenue from this venture.

There are many websites in the World Wide Web, which offer free ring tones. Most of them are country based and are usable only by customers of specific mobile service providers. The ring tones are broadly divided into monophonic, polyphonic, true, hi-fi, etc. Under these broad categories, there are many sub-categories that define the ring tones according to their genres. There are country music, film music, blues, rock, pop, traditional, devotional, chartbusters, new launches, etc that classify the genres. This categorization helps the user in his search for his favorite ring tone. After selection, he needs to note down the code and download the ring tone, either directly into his mobile phone or his computer. Although most of the websites do not charge for the common ring tones, but at times, they do charge for special ring tones. The process of downloading the ring tone also has other charges associated to it, such as charges related to the messages sent for the purpose of downloading.

Another form of getting a free ring tone is by the key press method. This method is mostly applicable to monophonic mobile phones. In this method, a specific sequence of key press is given in order to create a specific ring tone. The monophonic mobile phones come with an inbuilt composer, through which, key press ring tones are created. Many websites usually provide the key press sequence of many popular songs, so that a user can easily create a ring tone of his choice.