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Why are ring tones so expensive ?
Just upgraded my phone to a Sony 810i from a Nokia 3300i. So i decide to have a look and see what ring tones i can get and to my shock they are £3.50 a go. Bearing in mind that I can put music on my phone from my CD's and set them as my ringtones. I could also download music from certain music sites and put them on my phone which would cost 89p a song. This just seams like a license to print money, what a rip off.
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you should not actually have full tracks as your ring tone as you do not own the right to broadcast it openly as it is meant to be for personal use only, that is why ringtones are expensive i believe.
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Originally Posted by sayerc2003
Just upgraded my phone to a Sony 810i from a Nokia 3300i. So i decide to have a look and see what ring tones i can get and to my shock they are £3.50 a go. Bearing in mind that I can put music on my phone from my CD's and set them as my ringtones. I could also download music from certain music sites and put them on my phone which would cost 89p a song. This just seams like a license to print money, what a rip off.
You must remember that we do live in rip off Britain
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Originally Posted by BoBaDoB
you should not actually have full tracks as your ring tone as you do not own the right to broadcast it openly as it is meant to be for personal use only, that is why ringtones are expensive i believe.
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Tranfer music from your CDs/Computer to your phone, or cut them down so that only a clip of the song is used on the phone.
Alternatively, (going slightly out-of-date now) you can get free polyphonic ringtones from www.cbfmobile.com - that's what I use. All you do is pay for a small amout for your GPRS charges (usually no more than 5p). |
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polyphonic ringtones are old now though and more and more people are having mp3s as ringtones
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