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MMS Picture Messaging in Canada with Telus

Aug 18, 2008

About a week ago Boris and I showed up early to the Raincity office and were discussing sending and receiving MMS messages on carriers in Canada. Apparently people in the US do this all time and I thought we should give it a try. So, at 9:07am I sent an MMS message with a low-res photo just to see what would happen.

Because we were sending from my old Motorola V710 on Telus to Boris' Nokia on Fido/Rogers we didn't have much hope that it would arrive immediately. I expected that we would probably get it by lunch but as the day went by I forgot about our experiment.

The next morning I get a text-message from Boris: Got the mms at 11pm - go realtime

Now why does it that it take 14 hours to receive an MMS message? Is this why I don't bother to using this?

Of course, Telus' website is classic:

Ad for Telus picture messaging

Have you tried picture messaging? Was it quick like you expected? Did you use it again?

There was a 2 week period of

Submitted by Dan (not verified) on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 11:56.

There was a 2 week period of time when I used picture messaging over Rogers to what I believe was Verizon in the US and ours went back and forth pretty much instantly.

@dan Could be just a one

Submitted by tylor on Wed, 08/20/2008 - 09:40.

@dan Could be just a one time thing for me... I haven't sent any picture messages in years, maybe next time will be quicker. Good to hear that they can be fast.

I've recieved MMS pretty

Submitted by Augusto (not verified) on Sat, 09/13/2008 - 23:07.

I've recieved MMS pretty much in seconds, probably because most people are on the same network as I'm on. Maybe being on the same network makes a big difference?

In Asia here, per MMS cost

Submitted by Houston (not verified) on Mon, 01/26/2009 - 07:25.

In Asia here, per MMS cost is expensive, thats why we seldom use MMS. Only when required, its cool to know that in Western countries, MMS can be that fast.