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Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) is a standard for telephone messaging systems that allows sending messages that include multimedia objects including images, audio, video, rich text and not just text as in Short Message Services (SMS). It is mainly deployed in mobile networks along with other messaging systems like SMS, Mobile Instant Messaging and Mobile E-mail.
Most modern handsets and mobile operators provide multimedia messaging services. Picture messaging has become more and more popular now that cellphones have built in or attachable cameras on them enabling people to send picture messaging back and forth.
MMS-enabled mobile phones enable subscribers to compose and send messages with one or more multimedia parts. Multimedia parts may include text, images, audio and video. These content types should conform to the MMS Standards. For example your phone can send an MPEG-4 video in AVI format, but the other party who is receiving the MMS may not be able to interpret it. To avoid this, all mobiles should follow the standards defined by the Open Mobile Alliance. Mobile phones with built-in or attached cameras, or with built-in MP3 players are very likely to also have an MMS messaging client – a software program that interacts with the mobile subscriber to compose, address, send, receive, and view MMS messages. MMS Technology is tapped by various companies to suit different solutions. CNN-IBN, India’s biggest English news channel has Mobile Citizen Journalism where citizen can MMS photos directly to the studio.
Currently 88% of the market of SMS users are under the age of 22 years old. Text message usage in 2002 was at approximently 300 million messages per month in the United States and today has risen to over 2.5 billion messages per month. Verizon Wireless and Cingular Wireless, two of the largest cellphone companies, have been compatable with each other since March 18th, 2005 which made Verizon’s amount of text messages almost triple. Without getting a package deal, on average Verizon and Cingular charge $0.25 per photo message. You can Browse and download safe and best communication software in a secure and friendly environment. It is said that by 2004, SMS was the favorite method of business communication over emails, voice mail or even voice calls. Norwegians and Irish send or receive 2 messages a day. Malaysians send or receive 4 messages a day, Koreans get 10 messages, Singaporeans get 12 messages, and people in the Philippines get 15 messages per day.
The video below shows a funny ad for mobile MMS services from a European network operator: