A Ringer for Every Function.(Brock Muir of Endtone developed endtone)(musical tone played when a call is ended)(Brief Article)

Wireless Week, January, 2006 by Marek, Sue

By Sue Marek

If you think that ringtones and ringback tones are the only way to add music to your wireless conversation, you're wrong. The latest concept in the never-ending meshing of mobile phones and music is the endtone. The idea - conceived and developed by Brock Muir, founder and president of Endtone - is to have a musical tone similar to a ringtone play to signal wireless users and others (the tone will be audible to those around the caller) when a call has ended, been disconnected or dropped by the network. Endtone has filed for a patent on the technology.

Muir says he came up with the idea after using Nextel's Direct Connect push-to-talk technology and becoming frustrated that there was no way to signal that the conversation was over....

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