So far, Apple was very successful when it came towards keeping carriers close - carriers didn’t dare to do anything to the iPhone which Apple didn’t like. However, a large Swedish carrier called TeliaSonera felt like fighting back…
Back to reality: according to MacWorld Sweden, a TeliaSonera representative stated that an official MMS solution will soon become available to Telia customers.
I personally understand why the boys stand up here - MMS is a huge business for carriers. While data costs next to nothing nowadays (one megabyte for a cent or so), transferring a single MMS (90KB) can net the carrier up to three Euros for essentially the same service.
Apple probably refused to implement MMS in order to entice customers to switch to more-affordable push email solutions - while this is understandable (and, to some extent, noble); millions of existing MMS senders were isolated in the process. This unfortunately back-fired…which is why MMS solutions for jailbroken iPhones have always been immensely popular!
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