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Does MMS require cellular data or just text?
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ceg
Aug 25, 2015, 5:59:51 PM8/25/15
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I have a friend who swears that MMS doesn't work without data,
but I could swear myself that it does work without data.
Does MMS (for example, a picture sent through the phone's SMS
app) require cellular data?
Or does it use the "regular" cellular method?
but I could swear myself that it does work without data.
Does MMS (for example, a picture sent through the phone's SMS
app) require cellular data?
Or does it use the "regular" cellular method?
JF Mezei
Aug 25, 2015, 6:23:46 PM8/25/15
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On 15-08-25 17:59, ceg wrote:
> I have a friend who swears that MMS doesn't work without data,
> but I could swear myself that it does work without data.
MMS is basically an SMS that contains a pointer to a file that has your
> I have a friend who swears that MMS doesn't work without data,
> but I could swear myself that it does work without data.
rich content (image, video etc).
The SMS itself does not require data, as it use the SS7 signaling path.
However, the transmission of images/videos uses the data path. A
carrier may have special accounting tricks to charge differently for it.
The SS7 channels do not have the capacity to carry large files. This is
the channel that is used when yo dial a phone number and press "send" or
and and incoming call arrives, and you press "answer" and SS7 channel
used to determine where the conversation will take place (which
frequency/channel (and in the case of 2G, which time slot on a channel
will be used for that voice call).
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