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   god please an option to block ringback tones!

   

   annoyed in missouri, May 6th, 2005 @ 2:54pm

   
   

   this has got to be the most annoying service ever offered my cell pohone companies, i just want a setting on my phone to filter this crap out. everytime i have to call my ex to see how my son is doing i have to listen to a horrible quality recording of "do you like my body" first time i heard it i swore she was blasting the radio in her car and couldn't hear me.

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   Fixing a working system

   

   TJ, May 6th, 2005 @ 6:24pm

   
   

   You know why plain old rings have lasted so long? They work, and don't need to basically be replaced with a snippet of hold music. No, 'ring ring' isn't entertaining, but it is informational without pulling too much of your attention away from other things you may be doing while waiting for an answer or voice mail. Music on hold is just as irritating, and could be replaced by a brief soft tone every ten seconds so that you'd know you hadn't been disconnected. As the item points out, once you play people music you have to deal with all the issues about musical tastes and fads. Why bother?
   

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   Re: Fixing a working system

   

   PB, May 9th, 2005 @ 6:43am

   
   

   I can see the point of having two or three unobtrustive audio tones for calls [say one for family members and friends, one for work associates/business and another for unknown callers, thus giving an audio cue so you can decide whether to investigate further as to who it is [caller id] and decide if you are going to answer or not. However this litany of half-assed ring tones, I just don't know what to make of it. The only thing I can figure is that anyone who uses them is ever so slightly socially retarded.

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   Re: Fixing a working system

   

   Mike (profile), May 9th, 2005 @ 9:05am

   
   

   These aren't "ringtones" that you, the receiver hear. These are ringback tones, that the *caller* hears while waiting for the person they're calling to pick up. You know how you usually hear *ring ring* quietly... well, now you hear a song. So, the knowing whose calling stuff doesn't apply.

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