MMS Picture Messaging in Canada with Telus

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?

Aug 18, 2008 at 23:14
Submitted by Dan 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.

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.

Submitted by Augusto 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?

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