ETA-I'm in Columbia, SC

Everyone's making this into a huge bitch-fest btw. You wanted MMS, you got MMS. It is what it is. The past is the past, no point in bitching about what 'should' have happened and when it 'should' have.

Just updated my carrier settings, but still no MMS...

WTF.

Bdizzle: let me guess, ur game is weak, and ur little 7yr old bro walked off with ur lady! Go grump to your cuz you pessimistic hillbilly.

"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows that it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows that it has to outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. So whether you are a lion or a gazelle, when the sun comes up, YOU'D BETTER BE RUNNING."

How will changing it from email to MMS change traffic? I'm not going to be sending more data, just through a text now instead of email.

It’s not hard or nearly as expensive to blanket a country with 3G and MMS when it’s the size of your state.

Although this is not exactly on-topic for this thread, there are also other key points overlooked when comparing Europe and North America:

NA started earlier, and went thru the whole analog TDMA system, and had to rebuild the entire system for GSM.

Most EU countries adopted later, and went straight to GSM with later (more efficient, less expensive) systems.

Many EU countries built out their systems under government contract, and did not have to fight local government for tower space, licenses etc. Its Cheaper to build the same system in the EU.

In NA, we have at least 3 different radio protocols in operation, and you simply can not roam from one system to another in all cases. Further, our carriers are not under a real incentive to offer roaming, and only do so begrudgingly, and always try to wring the absolute top dollar out of the competition. There are still carriers that do not allow roaming onto their network EVEN when they have compatible systems.

Carriers in Europe are mandated to inter-operate and accept roaming at reasonable prices, and all systems are GSM and therefore capable of doing so.

The US, and to a lesser extent Canada, really need to have some national laws passed to force interoperability, roaming, and do so at some standardized prices.

If we have dropped calls, its our own damned fault for not insisting Cities and Counties allow greater tower density, and telling the NIMBYs and radiation fear mongers to take a hike.

I am really looking forward to this MMS release, ever since I've used WinMo and Blackberries I have loved MMS. It is very useful at times...

ummm first of its "B"dizzle23 not "d"dizzle23

and second id say ur full of bullshit too

I just plugged it in and had the update. I know some people were randomly selected to get it, I know other couples who share a line that got it also but in other parts of the country, Cali, Boston, Texas... And have had it for about 3 weeks.

If you think that's bullshit, what do you say to those like me who've had it working since April?

....wait....what am I thinking? I'm sorry guys, I'll leave now

Pay attention to mms settings, changing the password "CINGULAR1" to lowercase "cingular1" fixed my problem and now mms works!

Im on an an individual texting plan!

You should have tried this ploy back in August.

Trying to connive a credit one day before the rollout of MMS seems such an obvious scam.

I’m experiencing service issues already in chicago. Dropped calls and only 2 or 3 bars of service vs normally 4 or 5

Can't blame that on MMS. It hasn't been released yet, and there are probably mo more than 800 people in Chicago who have bothered to get the hacked carrier file.

The symptoms of MMS floodgates opening will be "All Circuits are Busy" messages when making calls, (or something similar).

MMS (and SMS) uses the call signaling channel (sometimes called the ringer channel). It does not use the regular data channel that iphone users are used to. Clogged signal channels cause call connection problems because there is not enough time slices on the tower to signal the phone of an incoming call.

Once connected, calls don't use that channel any more.

So what you are seeing has nothing to do with MMS.

I live in Charlotte NC and installed the carrier file and am able to send and receive MMS

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I agree that AT&T should have had this out from the get go. But at the same time apple should have had mms on the first iPhone. Then none of this would have happened.

At last, someone who understands this is a mess of Steve Jobs's making.

The ATT HATERS like to blame it on ATT. But ATT has had MMS on every other camera phone they sell since it was Cingular.

Steve promised them there would be no MMS, (not for any good reason, even the iPhone 2G could do MMS, it was just because Steve was stubborn.

So ATT engineers its network to handle email with huge attachments and video and everything else, and writes special "View My Message" systems, and jacks around its billing system to handle MMS exclusions to compensate.

Then Jobs almost dies, gets a gimps of where he is going, and decides to change his ways and DUMPS 30 MILLION MMS MESSAGES on ATT's network in one day.

The other carriers just let it happen, because they had developed no solutions to compensate for the iPhone, so they had nothing to undo. Their systems clogged up for a day, and then settled down and handled the load. Just like ATT will.

ATT was lied to by Apple. They spent a great deal of money building systems to handle MMS to compensate for Apple. Then they get dumped on, and they get the black eye, when the entire problem is one of Steve Jobs's making.

Question: HOW WILL IPHONE USERS IN THE US, WHO DO NOT ALREADY HAVE MMS, WHO HAVE NOT JAILBROKEN THEIR PHONES, BE NOTIFIED OF THE ADDITION? WILL IT BE A NOTICE WHEN SYNCING THE IPHONE?

Comment: It's interesting to see how many people now have MMS but it doesn't help to say "I have it here!" Where is here? It would be most helpful if, when sharing information that is regional, people say where they are from.

I am in San Francisco and do not have MMS capabilities yet.

People that can already use it here can verify that you can send mms to all phones. Maybe you should clarify yourself.

If you really have to sync with iTunes to get MMS, I bet half the peolpe with an iPhone will never get MMS!

Man, that did not take long! Makes me wonder if the apologetic email was pre-scripted and waiting...I am really not surprised.

Did any other carrier with iPhone customers have this issue at the launch of MMS? I don't remember hearing anything even close to this.