MMS to overtake SMS?

Multimedia Messaging Service or MMS have been introduced for several years now. But they never catched on SMS, the earlier form. Nevertheless, some think 2007 might be a good year to see more of them. The reason? Adverts supporting the development of the message form. "Firstly, the advertiser pays for the MMS. This means that even the downloading of the MMS via GPRS is free," says Eddie Groenewald, CEO of Multimedia Solutions, in an article of MyBroadband. Phone calls are getting ad-supported, and in this scenario, MMS price would lower to null.

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