July 18, 2005

Verizon and Sprint to Team Up on MMS

Wireless Week writes - MMS interoperability among U.S. operators continues to gain steam. As of midnight, Sprint and Verizon Wireless customers with cameraphones can now share picture and video messages with each other. Prior to having MMS interoperability, customers could only send photos from their handset to an e-mail address or from handset to handset, but only among same-carrier subscribers. According to Verizon spokesman Jeffrey Nelson, MMS interoperability between all the major U.S. operators likely will be completed within the next month or so. "This is a very important development for the entire industry," he says. "This is important for our customers and for the adoption of MMS."