Picture Messaging ...

I've got a CDM 9900 phone. I noodled out the picture taking process, Photo
Gallery management, Sending a taken photo with text message, and having it
received at my email account on Earthlink. Oy, what a drill. I lost count
of the keystrokes necessary to do all this 'stuff.'

Question now: Can we Verizonites send our Picture Messages to an AT&T
customer's phone? Seems my picture gets stripped off the message when
received by AT&T ... same happens from AT&T customer sending to me.
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- Philip

The only carriers that have developed MMS interoperability are Cingular AT&T
and T-Mobile.

That's because all three of them use GSM and GPRS, Verizon uses i95 and 1X

-julie

"Philip" <1chip-state1@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:sTbrd.5204$6K5.3995@newsread2.news.atl.earthl ink.net...
> I've got a CDM 9900 phone. I noodled out the picture taking process, Photo
> Gallery management, Sending a taken photo with text message, and having it
> received at my email account on Earthlink. Oy, what a drill. I lost count
> of the keystrokes necessary to do all this 'stuff.'
>
> Question now: Can we Verizonites send our Picture Messages to an AT&T
> customer's phone? Seems my picture gets stripped off the message when
> received by AT&T ... same happens from AT&T customer sending to me.
> --
>
> - Philip
>

Julie: THANK YOU. At $0.25 per attempt, I was not going to attempt more
than two picture messages when the first two failed.
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- Philip

"Julie Ruin" <julieruin@mixmail.com> wrote in message
news:1berd.11832$KO5.5499@fed1read02...
> The only carriers that have developed MMS interoperability are Cingular
> AT&T and T-Mobile.
>
> That's because all three of them use GSM and GPRS, Verizon uses i95 and 1X
>
> -julie
>
> "Philip" <1chip-state1@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:sTbrd.5204$6K5.3995@newsread2.news.atl.earthl ink.net...
>> I've got a CDM 9900 phone. I noodled out the picture taking process,
>> Photo Gallery management, Sending a taken photo with text message, and
>> having it received at my email account on Earthlink. Oy, what a drill. I
>> lost count of the keystrokes necessary to do all this 'stuff.'
>>
>> Question now: Can we Verizonites send our Picture Messages to an AT&T
>> customer's phone? Seems my picture gets stripped off the message when
>> received by AT&T ... same happens from AT&T customer sending to me.
>> --
>>
>> - Philip
>>
>
>

SinghaLvr wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 09:54:18 -0500, Philip wrote
> (in article <uWkrd.153$Va5.2@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net> ):
>
>>
>> Julie: THANK YOU. At $0.25 per attempt, I was not going to
>> attempt more than two picture messages when the first two failed.
>
> We have to pay for failed sends?


Good question. So I called 611.

I conveyed the thought clearly to the CS person that when I sent Pictures
Messages to an AT&T customer that the text messages arrived but the pictures
would be stripped off the messages. Same thing happens from the AT&T
customer to me. The gal says this is true and is mentioned in the
literature. (Oh? Guess I should do some reading.)

Next question: "For my attempt, am I still charged $0.25 cents for..."

"Sir, the message did not go through so you are not charged."

"Please ma'am, don't try to finish my sentence. Only I know where my
thoughts are going."

"Now, am I to understand that I will be charged for the text message that
did go through ($0.10) but not the attached picture which would make the
total transmission $0.25? (actually, I have a bulk 200 message package)

Pregnant pause. "That is correct, sir"

(obligatory but uncharacteristically snippy salutation from CS person).
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- Philip