Multimedia Messaging Service or MMS is becoming a popular trend among the mass. This service, as its name suggests, supports all multimedia-enabled services like image messaging, audio and video transferring and sending including all other rich media supports. The trend is prevalently on rise by having their root to the changes occurred due to mobile internet. The names of the supported bearers may include GPRS, EDGE and 3G technologies. This continuous growth also leads to the development of additional features like the implementation of mp3 phone.
Primary Features
The MMS service essentially works in three frames – (1) rich media, (2) multimedia and (3) multiple media. The available supportive media formats include text, image, audio and video. The MMS service works in unique, identified and individualized platforms in order to instigate and continue MMS. These platforms eventually interact with legacy mobile platforms, for example, contributing to SMS service. The platforms are MMS Relay and MMS User Database. MMS, in particular, demands more advanced infrastructure to run, which means new infrastructure that is essentially compliant to MMS service. The accessibility option is very crucial to MMS service. Essentially it should be independent in nature where the point is concerned with accessibility. The MMS message needs to be accessed by 2G and 3G mobile service networks, via fixed network services and through internet browsing options. Presently, multimedia messaging service is running under standardized mode offered by 3GPP. In practice, MMS is a feature that is available through GPRS setting. Content editing and formatting such as scaling or resizing of images as well as transferring them from one media into another is permissible.
Modes of Delivery
Primarily there are two modes of MMS delivery available. One is immediate delivery in which the client immediately receives the MMS message followed by a notification alert sent by Multimedia Messaging Service Centre (MMSC). Secondly there is another option known as deferred delivery in which the customer is notified by MMSC about the availability of the MMS message and it asks whether the customer is interested to retrieve the message or not. Depending on the personal preference of the customer, the message is then retrieved in the box.
The difference between these two modes denotes network latencies. Whether the immediate mode or deferred mode will be available to the customer is entirely dependent on the handset. That is, it is the manufacturer who sets the option whether the set will be controlled following a specific mode of delivery or the customer can set it according to his or her preference.
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