Mosquito Ringtone aka Teen Buzz
Firstly what is the Mosquito Ringtone, or as it’s often called Teen Buzz?
There’s actually a few different Mosquito Ringtones, but more on this later. It’s a Ringtone that is a constant tone played at a frequency which is not audible to people over the 25-30 year old range. As you get older your hearing becomes less sensitive, and certain audible ranges disappear from your hearing spectrum. The Mosquito Ringtone is targeted at this range which enables teens to hear the ringtone while adults can’t. The condition has a medical name if you want to look it up, it’s called
“Presbycusis”
Surprisingly this was originally used against teens, over in places like England and also the USA the Mosquito was setup in areas teens loitered and it was designed to annoy them and not effect adults nearby. So the tables were turned, and the teens turned it in to the Mosquito Ringtone or often called the Teen Buzz Ringtone and used it to be alerted to phone calls and text messages in places they weren’t allowed to carry cell phones or mobile phones such as at school.
Now about the different Mosquito Ringtones, they start out at 10khz which generally anyone under 60 Years Old can hear however people older then that can’t. Then they go down to 22.4khz which even some teens can have trouble hearing them, so you need really acute hearing for that one. So the most common Mosquito Ringtone for download is the 16.7khz Mosquito Ringtone.
Also i read over in Australia, there was a bit of an uproar about the Mosquito being offered. Apparently they didn’t like teens being able to use their cell phones in class and get away with it due to the tone being inaudible to teachers.. So i guess that’s what they get for creating a device to annoy teenagers, we will turn it around and use it to our advantage.
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