About MMS Push & WAP Push (in Hong Kong)

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Danny Ho
Unregistered guest
Posted on Monday, October 17, 2005 - 05:08 am:   

Dear All,

I've got a problem to deliver the MMS to the mobile phone. If deliver by WAP Push, only a single file is allowed to deliver at the same time (e.g. GIF or midi). If i using the MMSCOMP tool to make a .mms file and send it out using the MMS Notification, my Sony Ericsson T610 can get the notify message but could not allowed to download it. Is it the operator limation (My operator is Hong Kong "Sunday") ?
p.s. my mobile phone was turn on the GPRS function and able to receive MMS.

Basically, i want to deliver the GIF with MIDI music without sent by the ordinary MMS method, because of the slow speed (even using GPRS). What should i do ?

And also, i was hear a technology call MMS Push. Does anybody know what is that ? and how it's work ?

By the way, the deliver contents is close to 50KB include the midi music. If possible, i also want to increase the file size and provide riches contents.

Hope you guy do not hate to reply me.

Thanks,
Danny Ho
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support
Board Administrator
Username: Bryce

Post Number: 5167
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Wednesday, October 19, 2005 - 06:47 pm:   

Hi Danny,

If you see that the phone received the MMS notification message, but couldn't download the message, then this is an indicator that with the MMS settings as configured on the phone (GPRS APN and WAP Gateway IP), the phone could not access your MMSC.

It could be that your MMSC (NowSMS) does not have a public IP address, or it could be that the operator blocks external MMS delivery over their MMS APN (which is very common). Please see http://www.nowsms.com/howmmsworks.htm for more info and suggestions of alternatives.

Generally speaking, the only alternatives are sending your MMS via the operator MMSC (more info in the link), or using WAP Push.

Multiple files can be delivered via a single WAP Push (try the WAP Multimedia Push function in NowSMS). But what is actually pushed is not the object(s) itself, but rather a page that links to the object(s).

I don't believe there is any separate MMS related technology known as "MMS Push" ... see the link referenced above, and somebody was probably just using different terminology for the "MMS notification" which gets sent out via "WAP Push" over SMS.

-bn