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Jeff Rhodes
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Posted on Wednesday, September 29, 2004 - 01:20 am:   

I stumbled across this bb via google and posted in the wrong area, so I am reposting over here. HTH. Please forgive me for being such a newbie with respect to MMS. Can someone point me in the right direction for help concerning:

1.What is "protocol negotiation" for GSM, I think this has something to do with TCAP. I ran into a problem where "version 2 can't talk to version 3 unless the version 3 side supports protocol negotiation"? Does that make any sense?
2. I think that MMS requires an SMS message to "kick things off", at least that would make sense for incoming messages to an idle mobile. Is that right? If so, does the SMSC have to be "version 3" or will MMS work fine with a "version 2" SMSC?
3. Is there a correlation between "version" and GSM standards "release" numbers.

TIA, Jeff Rhodes jrhodes@wirelesscorp.com