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White Paper T310/T312
12 January 2003
Benefits
Essentially enabling the mobile terminal to serve as
image processor and conveyor, Multimedia
Messaging accommodates the exchange of
important visual information as readily as it
facilitates fun. Business and leisure usage of MMS
will be dynamically merged, resulting in enhanced
personal efficiency for users and increased network
activity for operators. In short, MMS affords total
usage for total communication
Because MMS uses WAP as its bearer technology
and is being standardized by 3GPP, it has wide
industry support and offers full inter operability,
which is a major benefit to service providers and
end users. Ease-of-use resulting from both the
gradual steps of the messaging evolution and the
continuity of user experience gained from inter
operability is assured.
The MMS server, through which MMS messages
are sent, supports flexible addressing (to both
normal phone numbers (MSISDN) and e-mail
accounts), which makes user interface more
friendly and allows greater control for operators.
The MMS server, moreover, is responsible for the
instant delivery feature of MMS.
MMS technical features
The MMS standard, just like SMS, offers store-and-
forward transmission (instant delivery) of
messages, rather than a mailbox-type model. MMS
is a person-to-person communications solution,
meaning that the user gets the message directly
into the mobile. He or she doesn’t have to call the
server to get the message downloaded to the
mobile. Unlike SMS, the MMS standard uses WAP
as its bearer protocol. MMS will take advantage of
the high speed data transport technologies EDGE
and GPRS and support a variety of image, video
and audio formats to facilitate a complete
communication experience.