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