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GTakacs
Joined: Nov 21, 2002
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From: USA, Fort Worth, TX
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That 1000 messages per month, but still.....
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ppcrockar
Joined: Mar 04, 2002
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I'm still not saying that you should buy it and use it for personal use. Of course that would be too expensive.
But the software is available and the intended market isn't consumers of course. But with competion on the MMS market the prices might go down.
You would of course need to be able to send more than 1000 messages if you start an MMS service, and you could get more. But of course you have to pay more. I don't think it's that expensive considering that it's the only program you need to start your own MMSC. And for a company that would like to launch MMS service that is not much money. |
GTakacs
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I still don't understand the big fuss about this software. It is an e-mail relay server. Nothing more. Could be written by anyone and I'm sure it will be.
I've read the MMS standard documentation and developer guide and there is absolutely NOTHING spectacular about the way it works, it is a MIME message with header, an SMIL file (similar to HTML) that decribes the message and then the attached media files. No brainer. So even I could write similar program, however I have no intentions to do so......
So again, good luck to those people who are selling that software, in the US it will have absolutely NO value as far as a competitive MMS service goes since you pay by GPRS traffic already not by the message and you'd be paying the same no matter whose MMS server you're going through. As as sfar as remote controlling your PC, just read my post above......
In the other parts of the world, they will catch onto the same billing eventually....... It's just a matter of time to realize that that makes more sense. Until then these guys better sell a shitload of this software because after that they surely won't 
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ppcrockar
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I don't think MMS will ever be paid by the amount of data transferred in Europe. The service providers want it to work like the sms services.
I have not heard of any other service provider that charges you for the amount of data you transfer. No service provider (AFAIK) in europe uses that billing method, and they will not change to that method. |
GTakacs
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It seems like here in the US we get the technology much slower than you guys in Europe, however it seems like our money goes a lot longer way than yours.......
I am from Hungary and every time I think the US is finally catching up, we got GSM, and we finally got MMS and picture mesaging, they already got video download for your phone in Hungary.
However a 300 minute plan with free roaming and long distance to anywhere in the US with 1MB GPRS would set me back $30 a month, the same would cost close to $80 in Hungary.
In Europe people like to pay for EXACTLY what the use, here we prefer to have a bucket of minutes and a bucket of data and use as much as we please out of that. So you're right, in Europe they will probably stick to the per message charge on the MMS which I think sucks (for you guys)!
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Posted: 2002-11-28 09:49
