Multimedia Messaging Service
Abstract
Over time, the nature and form of mobile communication is getting less textual and more visual. The wireless industry is moving from text messages to icons and picture messages to photographs and blueprints to video messages and movie previews being downloaded and on to full blown movie watching via data streaming on a mobile device. Mobile messaging is evolving beyond text by taking a development path from SMS (Short Message Service) to EMS (Enhanced Messaging Service) to MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service). The Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) is as its name suggests the ability to send and receive messages comprising a combination of text, sounds, images and video to MMS capable handsets. The Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) confers the ability to send still images such as mobile postcards, mobile pictures, mobile screensavers, mobile greeting cards, mobile maps and business cards. Additionally, moving images, cartoons and interactive video will also be supported by Multimedia Messaging (MMS). New mobile network infrastructure is needed for Multimedia Messaging (MMS) in addition to implementing the new bearer services such as 3G, new network elements such as Multimedia Messaging Relays and Stores will be needed.
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