She said: вЂњA lot of them take their mobiles to school when they are not technically meant to have them and that behaviour becomes more of a habit. Jenny Ehren, associate research director at the analytics firm Childwise, said part of the reason was that the current generation of young people had become used to using their phones in a furtive manner to avoid detection at school. However, since then the publicвЂ™s appetite for ringtones has steadily waned as smartphones have developed multiple new ways to communicate beyond the traditional voice call.Дata from mobile phone analysts Sensor Tower showed that installation of apps related to ringtones have slumped in the UK by 20 per cent between 20, from 4.6 million to 3.7 million. Youngsters вЂusing phones in furtive manner at schoolвЂ™

Loud ringtones blaring in public became such a ubiquitous feature of that era that they were famously lampooned on the Channel 4 comedy Trigger Happy TV, with comedian Dom Joly carrying an oversized mobile that would blast out the famous Nokia вЂњGran ValsвЂќ ringtone in libraries and cinemas. In 2004, the Crazy Frog ringtone, made by the Swedish producer Jamba!, grossed ВЈ40 million after becoming a hit with young users. The trend comes after ringtones emerged as a booming industry in the late nineties and early noughties, when people viewed having unique or novel tones as a way to personalise their phones. It comes after surveys by regulator Ofcom nicknamed 16 to 24-year-olds вЂњGeneration MuteвЂќ after more than twice as many said they preferred instant messaging to phone calls.ДЄnalysts told The Telegraph that because younger people are nearly always glued to their phone screens, they do not need ringtones to know when someone is calling them.В They also said teenagers prefer to communicate silently and discreetly through messages to avoid parents and others eavesdropping on their conversations.

Ringtones are now the preserve of the old and middle aged, experts have said, and mobile phones ringing in public will soon become a social вЂњfaux pasвЂќ.ДЄpp downloads for ringtones in the UK have slumped by nearly a quarter in recent years, with analysts saying one reason for the decline is young people keeping their phones on silent.

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