WHAT IS MMS ?

MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) enables messaging with full content versatility, including images, audio, video, data and text, from terminal to terminal or from terminal to e-mail. MMS delivers a location-independent, total communication experience. Despite the versatility of content the service is, from the user point of view, a simple, logical extension of Text Messaging (SMS) and Picture Messaging.

MMS content can include one or several of the following content types, with minimal restriction to message size or format:
Picture
Data
Text
Audio
Video

 

HOW TO CREATE AN MMS ?

To create a multimedia message, a terminal with and integrated or connected digital camera is used for the initial digital image input. If a multimedia message is sent to a mobile phone without the MMS application, this so called legacy terminal will receive a SMS stating that at the operator web site there is a new message with the Internet address and the personal password to fetch it.

This same web site can also be used for storing favorite messages and pictures (as well as for creating messages and forwarding them). From the network perspective, the Multimedia Messaging Service Center (MMSC) is needed to perform the required store and forward operations of multimedia messages.