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MMS Arrives For the iPhone — Will It Crash AT&T's Network?
itwbennett writes "AT&T has said it is already seeing 'record traffic during peak hours of the night' with just the users selected for testing, and so it is 'very nervous' about the spike in traffic that it expects will occur after it launched MMS service for iPhones on Friday. Of course, setting records for MMS traffic isn't that great a feat considering that 'the service in question has been out for years on other handsets and hasn't exactly taken the mobile world by storm. In 2008, MMS made up just 2.5 percent of all messages sent from phones worldwide, meaning about 97.5 percent were SMS text messages, according to ABI Research. ABI expects the MMS share to grow to just 4.5 percent by 2014.' However, the carrier's fears in one respect may have been justified, says ABI analyst Dan Shey: 'Interoperability between carriers has always been an issue, and that's why MMS usage hasn't really taken off.'"
I hope it does crash the AT&T network and its customer base demands massive credits for the outtage. Fine, call me a flame baiter or a troll. Any company that willingly cooperates with the Bush warrantless wiretapping scheme deserves it. AT&T has behaved so egregiously that it would be just about mot just to see this happen. Serves the company right for being a bandwidth hord instead of doing something like actually upgrading the network to take full advantage of modern wireless commnications protocols. I would feel sorry, honest and truely, for those who would be affected by such an outtage but an outtage like that would put the power back in the consumer's hands, where it belongs.