NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: JOANIE WEXLER ON WIRELESS IN THE ENTERPRISE 09/08/04 Today's focus: MMS takes interoperability step
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Network World Special Reports on IP Telephony Security, the State of Wireless LANs, trends in the networked world and more are currently available. Download any or all of our Special Reports at: http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=79645 _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: MMS takes interoperability step By Joanie Wexler It's difficult to decide whether to laud the recent announcement by AT&T Wireless and Cingular Wireless that their respective Multimedia Messaging Services are now interoperable - or to be stunned that, so close to the wrap-up of their merger, it was not a fait accompli until now. The MMS interoperability announcement means MMS customers of each carrier can now exchange multimedia messages with users on the other carrier's network, too. These are messages that might include text, photos, animated graphics, voicemail, music and video clips. Common industry wisdom says this move is kind of a no-brainer since, soon, the two networks should theoretically be one, and it won't do for services from one entity to not work with one another. On the other hand, MMS inter-network interoperability remains rare, so hopefully the move will inspire interoperability moves elsewhere among competing carriers. As the industry learned with Short Message Service (SMS), MMS, too, will require interoperability among different carrier networks to become commonly used. Would you only want to call someone who happened to use the same phone company you did? Would you only wish to e-mail someone who used the same ISP that you did? The pokiness with which the cellular carriers in general have offered interoperability among their networks, particularly for data services, begs the question: Are they not interested in the potentially higher revenue that these value-added services might bring? Or is the issue one of bandwidth constraints and potentially cannibalizing their secure voice revenue? Voice is the moneymaker for cellular carriers. Wireless veteran and consultant Andy Seybold told a recent meeting of Silicon Valley's Wireless Communications Alliance that no data-only wireless service other than paging has ever made money. The build-outs of 2.5G and 3G networks were initially intended to add increasing numbers of voice callers to the cellular infrastructure. If we gobble up too much bandwidth using highfalutin' data and multimedia services, perhaps the carriers figure that the "can you hear me now?" guy will no longer be able to get anyone to answer. RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS Cingular touts mobile e-mail services Network World, 08/09/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/080904cingular.html Verizon launches Bluetooth phone Network World http://napps.nwfusion.com/weblogs/cool/archives/005962.html WISP outlook dark, guru Andy Seybold says Network World Wireless in the Enterprise Newsletter, 08/23/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/nlwir570 FCC mobile spam rule doesn't cover some SMS IDG News Service, 08/13/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0813fccmobil.html _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Joanie Wexler Joanie Wexler is an independent networking technology writer/editor in California's Silicon Valley who has spent most of her career analyzing trends and news in the computer networking industry. She welcomes your comments on the articles published in this newsletter, as well as your ideas for future article topics. 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