In accordance with a request from a portable telephone 60, a sound data
delivering server 20 delivers a trial-listening music data to the
portable telephone without charging a fee to a user of the portable
telephone, or delivers a regular music data to the portable telephone
upon charging a fee to the user. The delivered trial-listening music data
is actually reproduced by the portable telephone; however, the number of
reproduction times is limited, and the trial-listening music data is
erased from a memory (RAM 63) of the portable telephone after the
trial-listening music data is reproduced for the predetermined number of
reproduction times. Thus, a system is provided in which the user of the
portable telephone can obtain the trial-listening music data of an
incoming call melody without being charged for the fee, and can actually
reproduce the trial-listening music data with the use of the user s
portable telephone.