A ringtone that cannot be heard by people around the user of the mobile phone? Very hard to believe. But that is what exactly happens with mosquito ringtone. The power of the guardians has considerably been undermined with the empowerment of the young people by mosquito ringtone on their mobile phones. It is as if the power of mobile phones has suddenly shifted from the hands of the adults to the young ones by the magic wand of mosquito ringtone which remain inaudible to the adult ears. Silently lands the text message in a school student’s cell phone without the knowledge of the teacher in the classroom and the student escapes punishment for violating school discipline.

Most of the mosquito ringtones are offered in MP3 format. The most important factor is to ensure that the tone is properly heard under different conditions as otherwise there would be too many calls missed out. Choosing the most comfortable mosquito ringtone is vital for the person using the tone on cellphone.

The varying conditions for using mosquito ringtone depend on the user. One may use the tone as a measure of circumspection. Others may use the mosquito ringtone to maintain secrecy and escape attention of the adults. Whatever be the intentions, it must be ensured that it is audible under all circumstances. There are various methods for downloading mosquito ringtone to the mobile phones which are discussed below.

Ringtones basically refer to customized alerting sounds or music on mobile phones for calls received on them. While a telephone also has ringtones to announce an incoming call, the term is more relevant in the context of mobile phones. Ringtones for mobile phones have elements of personalization that make them highly popular as people can have on their phones diverse ringtones that can also be changed at will. There are no features more in demand on internet than mobile phone ringtones.

The human ears can no longer hear the sounds lying in the high frequency zone but are audible to humans with aging of people. The more the age, the more difficult it becomes to hear sound of frequencies above 10 kHz although human ear is capable of hearing sounds up to 20 kHz and even a little higher in exceptional cases. The onset of such decline starts from the age of 20 and gets worse with advancing age.

There are situations when the high frequency mosquito ringtone cannot be heard. The various contributing factors for these may be natural, environmental or merely psychological. Age is one of the most potent factors for inaudibility of mosquito ringtone. As people grow older, the internal organs for hearing like the inner ear and the eardrum become weaker. The very high frequency sounds cannot be heard as people advance in age which has been medically established.

Free Download

Many companies offer free download of mosquito ringtones. On websites of such companies, one has to go to the Mosquito Ringtone option and click on each of the tones for hearing. This way each mosquito ringtone can be checked as to its audibility. The tone that is most clearly audible needs to be selected.

The chosen mosquito ringtone then has to be right clicked and ‘Save Target As’ or ‘Save Link As’ to be selected depending on whether Netscape/IE or Firefox is used. Thereafter ‘OK’ button is to be clicked in the dialogue window that comes next and that makes the mosquito ringtone chosen to be downloaded to the computer.

Cellphone ringtones of high frequency when most adults cannot hear it is called the mosquito ringtone or zumbitone or simply teen buzz ringtone. For example, use of cellphone is not permitted in a classroom. A student by using mosquito ringtone in his or her cellphone can furtively know about a call or a message received in the cellphone without the teacher’s knowledge. In fact to the adult teacher the mosquito ringtone is not audible.

Cellphones are known as mobiles phones in the uk and providers such as o2.co.uk are seeing a rise in the number of phones being purchased by the younger generation, either by themselves as the price of cellphones has reduced in the last few years or are purchased from them by their parents. This is then reflected in the number of phones that are appearing in the classroom.

The technology of mosquito ringtone is sourced from the ‘mosquito device’ developed by Howard Stapleton primarily to drive away the teenagers who hang around the shops in UK. The device that Stapleton developed for Compound Security Systems emitted a sound called ‘teen buzz’ that caused a great deal of annoyance to the teenagers or younger people. However people past the age of teenagers remained largely unaffected by this modulated 17 kHz sound.