planning to use the heck out of MMS...to get back at AT&T?

[TheAnswer]

No MMS is email for dumbphones

QFT

 

[cocky jeremy]

Seriously, who gives a crap about MMS anyway? You can email a pic if need be. I think I feel the need to send like 2 picture messages a year.

What makes you think anyone gives a **** how YOU prefer to send pictures?

 

[daihard]

Anyone else out there planning to use the heck out of MMS just to get back a little at AT&T? More specifically, to get more of your money's worth for the OUTRAGEOUS text message charges?

I think the way AT&T charges for text messaging is outright predatory. I can't believe they can be so blatant about their charges. I mean really, with being charged for an incoming AND outgoing charge, anyone could easily go over 200. But to have the next tier at 1,500? Really? Nothing around 400, 600, or anywhere in the middle? 200 and then 1,500? Ridiculous.

So thanks AT&T. Normally, I might send the occasional MMS here and there. But since you are charging me and my wife $30 for unlimited texting (when we may otherwise send about 3-400/month each), yeah, we're going to use MMS...alot. I feel like I need to get my money's worth.

Anyone else feel like this?

Count me in. I know it's childish, but there's always a child in me.

 

[The Californian]

If I cared enough to get the numbers of AT&T employees I would send this:

So instead i'll just send my girlfriend this:

 

[cocky jeremy]

Count me in. I know it's childish, but there's always a child in me.

As long as you’re not in a child.

 

[Daremo]

I think this whole "AT&T networks are going to crash!" is as silly as the Y2K panic.

MMS will launch, a bunch of tools will hold their breath, anticipating the "Great MMS crash of 2009", realize nothing happened, shrug their shoulders, and then start the mass hate threads on AT&T tethering.

MMS threads are dead! Let the tethering hate begin!

 

[Interstella5555]

I feel sorry for att's cell towers come Sept. 25th.

This. I guess we could all be cool like the OP and try and send 500 MMSs per hour as soon as it goes live to show AT&T who they're fecking with. Of course, this will likely lead to service disruption and failed messages due to the sudden increase of load on the towers, which will undoubtedly lead tot he OP and others female-dogging about how much the AT&T service sucks and how they should have waited until MMS worked to actually release it. Good times, let me know how it works out for you.

 

[yg17]

You do realize that if you were to take down AT&T's network with MMS (which sounds HIGHLY unlikely) the end result will mean a bunch of poor souls at the bottom of the corporate totem pole, who have no control over deciding when MMS is enabled, will have to work overtime into the weekend to fix it? If you think the decision makers at AT&T are going to be climing up cell towers and running around datacenters to bring it back up, you're dead wrong.

 

[hp200lx]

Why don't you people who are hell bent on bringing down the AT&T network and sending 500 MMS messages per hour as part of your own stupid little "protest" take into consideration those of us who actually want to use the service. Some of us MR readers actually want to send MMS and have been waiting for this feature. This plan to basically DDoS their system because you want to get back at them is outlandish and childish. Think about others for once instead of your selfish vendetta against AT&T

/rant

 

[yg17]

Why don't you people who are hell bent on bringing down the AT&T network and sending 500 MMS messages per hour as part of your own stupid little "protest" take into consideration those of us who actually want to use the service. Some of us MR readers actually want to send MMS and have been waiting for this feature. This plan to basically DDoS their system because you want to get back at them is outlandish and childish. Think about others for once instead of your selfish vendetta against AT&T

/rant

And probably illegal.

 

[HarrisonB]

iPhones have had MMS forever. You could send multiple pictures in emails and the network never died.

 

[VenusianSky]

I doubt anything is going to happen to AT&T's networks. The number of people that plan on sabotaging the AT&T networks with MMS messages is a small fraction of all iphone owners. I probably won't get the MMS update until tomorrow. Most people probably won't have it until next week, if even that.

 

[Gathomblipoob]

Anyone else out there planning to use the heck out of MMS just to get back a little at AT&T? More specifically, to get more of your money's worth for the OUTRAGEOUS text message charges?

The only folks you'll be hurting are your fellow iPhone users. Your idea is really juvenile.