Cell phone ring tone sales hit $3.5B

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <jhall () SIMS Berkeley EDU>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:23:12 
To:Dave Farber <dave () farber net>, Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Subject: Cell phone ring tone sales hit $3.5B


esp. note the last paragraph below... -Joe

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http://money.cnn.com/2004/01/13/news/funny/ring_tones.reut/index.htm

Cell phone ring tone sales hit $3.5B

Those little jingles are turning into a big business.
January 13, 2004: 1:31 PM EST

LONDON (Reuters) - Sales of mobile phone ring tones, those tinny song
recordings programmed into millions of handsets around the world,
jumped 40 percent in the past year to $3.5 billion, according to a
study released on Tuesday.

The worldwide sale of ring tones, which started as a marketing gimmick
for music labels and mobile phone companies, is roughly equivalent to
10 percent of the $32.2 billion global music market.

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