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.