MMS: Something AT&T Didn't Screw-Up

28.09.2009
As popular as it is to pick on AT&T, it easy is to forget the company . The addition of multimedia messaging is an example.

OK, so AT&T really should have had MMS available when the iPhone 3GS shipped this summer. We are also to be available legally from AT&T.

However, after reports AT&T was concerned that turning on MMS would , I was happy to be able to place voice calls throughout the Friday rollout.

I was even happier that MMS, which I started using as soon as it was available Friday afternoon, seems to work just fine. Yes, I was part of the MMS surge and somehow lived to tell.

Not everyone is as happy as I am. You can read news stories that quote some unhappy customer comments from . I am sure there are problems, but they appear to be relatively few.

Considering how low AT&T set expectations, essentially "Be glad if the network still functions when we're through," I do not want to give them too much credit. Customers have a right to expect feature rollouts that do not paralyze the network.