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| Drg Unregistered guest |
Hey guys, I am curious about the MMSC blocking for the non-operator MMSC. Firstly, I'd like to say I'm in Australia so the major network Optus, Telstra, Vodafone etc. I'm not sure if they do this. But otherwise, if we want to send out bulk MMS, a 14.4kbps GPRS modem will just crash and burn. So what can we do? Sending out push notifications via SMS is fine, if we can direct them to a website with high bandwidth, but if not, it's impossible. Any ideas? | |||
| Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Bryce Post Number: 4319 Registered: 10-2002 |
If your operator(s) don't offer bulk MMS sending options, then there still aren't very good options. (And unfortunately, the operators that do offer bulk MMS sending generally are not priced competitively.) I'm curious why you think sending out push notifications would require high bandwidth. How many messages are you planning to send out? How large is the content? Content for mobile phones is typically much smaller than a typical web site, so I don't see this as requiring extraordinary bandwidth. | |||
| Drg Unregistered guest |
Sending out push notifications is fine - sending out videos/images/audio files via a 14.4kbps GPRS modem is not. The fact is, we don't want to send all the data through the GPRS modem to the operator. We want to send the push notification via the operator, and store the data elsewhere on high bandwidth. | |||
| Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Bryce Post Number: 4339 Registered: 10-2002 |
Ok. I misread your original posting. I agree it is stupid that the operators want all of this control. But at its core, it is a billing issue. The way that most operators have deployed their MMS setup is that there is a separate GPRS APN dedicated for MMS. Users are not charged for data connections to this APN. Therefore the operators severely limit what can be accessed via the APN, allowing only data exchange with the operator MMSC. I have seen cases where a content provider was able to get an operator to open up access for their external MMSC. However, this was for a promotion related to a major television show, and was probably somewhat unique. What I was suggesting is that you're probably stuck using regular WAP Push for sending out your content. But you should talk to your operators about other MMS connectivity options that they offer. I'm not sure what the current state of things is in Australia ... but in many other parts of the world, there are operators that offer MM7 connections. The only problem is that the per message charges are typically at about the same level as what end-users are charged. | |||
