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  • Last year, customers of state-controlled China Mobile found that their ring-back tones — what a caller hears after a number has been dialed but before the other party has answered — had been replaced with a nationalistic song.

    Corrections 2010

  • The Skype store is expected to expand to include ring-back tones and other music-based personalization content from Edgar BronfmanJr.'sEdgar Bronfman Jr.'s stable of artists, the companies said.

    Bronfman's Warner Music In Skype Tie-Up 2006

  • The left-hand set of the left-hand key may be those of a ring-back key on the answering plug, while the right-hand set of the left-hand key may be for any special purpose.

    Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. George Patterson 1910

  • You are burning with indignation at this neglect, and have left the instrument to sit down and pen a stinging letter of complaint to the Company when the ring-back re-calls you.

    Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow 1893

  • Cell phones that are equipped with ring-back tones (the music someone hears when they call someone), can interfere with the Code Red service.

    The Times-Journal: News 2010

  • Cell phones that are equipped with ring-back tones (the music someone hears when they call someone), can interfere with the Code Red service.

    The Times-Journal: News 2010

  • Cell phones that are equipped with ring-back tones (the music someone hears when they call someone), can interfere with the Code Red service.

    The Times-Journal: News 2010

  • Cell phones that are equipped with ring-back tones (the music someone hears when they call someone), can interfere with the Code Red service.

    The Times-Journal: News 2010

  • Cell phones that are equipped with ring-back tones (the music someone hears when they call someone), can interfere with the Code Red service.

    The Times-Journal: News 2010

  • Cell phones that are equipped with ring-back tones (the music someone hears when they call someone), can interfere with the Code Red service.

    The Times-Journal: News 2010

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