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| Miketv New member Username: Miketv Post Number: 3 Registered: 11-2006 |
I don't really understand the tech side of this but i'll try to describe what i'm after. I would like a user-based gateway where members of my forum can choose to send content off the forum (jpeg & wmv) to their mobile. This would be a system where they just browse the forum, click what they want to send and thats it. Is this possible with nowsms? Would the size of an attachment be a problem as most wmv's are around 8mb but can go to 30mb? This would be worldwide for multiple users to send at the same time. Thanks | |||
| Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Bryce Post Number: 6834 Registered: 10-2002 |
Hi Mike, Great in concept ... but not practical in today's reality. Not so much due to limitations of NowSMS, but limitations of network connectivity, content size issues, billing/charging. First off, you want to send to anyone anywhere in the world. For MMS, there simply aren't any providers that can offer true world-wide connectivity right now. The SMS interconnections all exist worldwide, but getting MMS interconnections in place between all of the operators has been much slower. Second, you won't find an operator MMSC that will accept an 8MB video. And you won't find many phones that support WMV (needs to be converted to 3GPP video, but still too big). In general, you're looking at real world limits more like 250KB. And the operators aren't going to want all of this large content on their MMSCs. Then there's the issue of charging, as it costs you each time you want to send a message. For the most part, I think you'd want to generate simple URLs for the content, where you could potentially send these URLs out to the phones (or the users could manually enter them into their phones). WAP Push generally works best for sending URLs out to phones ... but there are technical issues that make it a non-starter for being able to send to all users in the US market. For the US market, you'd send a standard SMS with a URL link in it, and hope that the SMS client in the receiving device automatically turns the URL into a hyperlink (this is widely, but not universally supported). That still leaves you with the issue of who's going to pay for you to send out the SMS messages with these URLs. -bn | |||
