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Your own MMSC... |
ppcrockar
Joined: Mar 04, 2002
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I found this today while looking for MMS on the internet.
http://www.nowsms.com/
Seems like a great program for setting up your own MMS service center. Seems quite easy to setup...
There is a 60 day free trial version. But after that the program costs $745 (USD/Euro).
Would be cool to have your own MMS service. Just need an internet connection and a GSM phone connected to your PC  |
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nookiehunter
Joined: Aug 04, 2002
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great job dude 
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superunknown
Joined: Nov 21, 2002
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But it will cost you after the free trial
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Sam79
Joined: Nov 25, 2002
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From: Sweden
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Nothing is for free...
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georgied
Joined: Oct 03, 2002
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From: Manchester, UK
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Not even love & freedom?  |
GTakacs
Joined: Nov 21, 2002
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From: USA, Fort Worth, TX
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Uhmmmm, what good is to have my own MMS server?
a) I'd get charged for the traffic off my cellphone to provide service for myself or whoever else.... (I'd be double charged for myself, once to send from my cellphone to the PC and then from the PC to whoever I'm sending to)
b) My MMS are billed as traffic from my provider so it doesn't matter whose server it goes thrgouh I get charged the same
c) why would I want to pay close to $500 for something that is provided free of charge from my provider (less traffic) |
ppcrockar
Joined: Mar 04, 2002
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Well, you could start your own company and make your own MMS service. And you could av lower prices than the operator and get more users than the operator.... at least in my dream |
GTakacs
Joined: Nov 21, 2002
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From: USA, Fort Worth, TX
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I still don't get it..... My operator does not charge for MMS on a per use basis. They just simply deduct usage from my GPRS data pool. So I pay for MMS by the data used not by message. And I would do the same no matter whose MMS server I'd be using. Now your case might be different, but in the US with T-mobile they did it right so there is no MMS message charge....
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Joined: Oct 09, 2002
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whats the use to a regular consumer??
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ppcrockar
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Well.. in europe the service providers will charge you for every MMS you send. I don't know the exact numbers but I think they will charge somwhere between US$0.3-0.6 for each MMS.
Right now most service providers have a trial period for free. But later on they will charge for every sent MMS. |
GTakacs
Joined: Nov 21, 2002
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From: USA, Fort Worth, TX
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On T-mobile in the US, they just charge by the data you've transferred. It's $2.99 for 1MB + 300 SMS or $9.99 for 10MB + 300SMS.
Note that both incoming and outgoing SMS and MMS are charged.
You get charged $0.01 for every 10Kbytes overage so roughly 1-2 cents per MMS (I'm assuming 10K-20K MMS messages) if you go over your 1MB limit. I managed to use 400K in 1 week with heavy usage (lot of testing) so I guess 1MB is about what I'd use in a month.
But even at $0.30 an MMS it's an awful lot of messages before it makes sense to buy a $500 software.....
So again, nice little gizmo, no real use to anyone......
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bingo
Joined: Oct 30, 2002
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I may have misunderstood, but I think one of the benefits is the gateway to the mobile network from your PC.
If you can send and receive SMS, MMS etc from your PC then you can remotely control your PC as well.
For example, you could send SMS/MMS to:
- Start "ping" commands to check whether your website was running
- Check the availability of a domain name
- Perform just about any function that you can write a batch file for
It does have some uses for the everyday joe. Next time you're sat at your PC ask yourself "could I have done this from my mobile?"
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GTakacs
Joined: Nov 21, 2002
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From: USA, Fort Worth, TX
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Well, I don't know about you, but I get up around 8, then get into my clothes, get to the office around 8:30, then sit in front of two PCs (one Windows PC, one Linux Laptop) writing C/C++ code all day while both are hooked on the corporate network giving me access to the internet.
While I'm doing this, my home PC is sitting home connected to the end of a cable modem with a fixed IP address running windows XP pro. If I want to get to my home PC to check on something I just run terminal server from my windows machine at work and I can even print to my work printer from home....
Then around 12:00 I go and have lunch with my friends and I'm glad that I can be away from those nasy pointers and dynamic data structures and the multi threaded multitasking system I am developing software for.
Then at about 13:00 I go back to work and sit in front of the two PCs until about 17:30 and while I'm there I have access to my corporate e-mail as well as to all three of my POP3 personal e-mail accounts.
Then at about 17:30 I head on home and watch a little TV, then have dinner and sit in front of my home PC and download stuff off the net, surf message boards and edit home videos.
Then around 1:00 I go to bed. (I also take a bath and brush by teeth in case you wondered.....)
So there is just not much time in my day when I REALLY want to get connected to my PC yet I can't, and I really doubt that running a MMS server at home on my PC would be any kind of solution to the big problem of me not being able to start a defrag on my harddrive while I'm taking a dump.......
Not to mention that I know about 100 better ways to spend $500.......
But that's just me..... I'm sore there are a TON of everyday Joes out there who want to get connected to their PCs from a galaxy far far away......
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GTakacs
Joined: Nov 21, 2002
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From: USA, Fort Worth, TX
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I just realized that this software actually costs $745 and you can only send 1000 messages for that money!!! I'm sure this software will be selling like hot-cakes!
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bingo
Joined: Oct 30, 2002
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Not everyone spends their day in an office connected to any sort of network. I used to spend more than half my day driving between customers.
But $750 for 1000 messages is a cr@p deal... I don't think they've thought it through (or maybe they are just greedy!) |
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Posted: 2002-11-26 19:26
