Swisscom to discontinue MMS service

Re:Swisscom to discontinue MMS service by muscaw on Thursday February 10, 2022 @05:21AM (#30284392)

Given SMSs bigger than 160 characters were sent as MMS, I wonder what will be the new UX in the SMS app when I reach the character limit.

Will my SMS be sent into multiple chunks? Will my system tell me it's over the character limit?

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Re:Swisscom to discontinue MMS service by brirec on Thursday February 10, 2022 @05:29AM (#30284452)

>Will my SMS be sent into multiple chunks?

Yes. Actually, it already is. MMS is rarely used now for text-only messages, and instead concatenated messages is the norm. It does require network and OS support on both ends, however.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatenated_SMS

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Re:Swisscom to discontinue MMS service by daneel_w on Thursday February 10, 2022 @09:15AM (#30286244)

SMS always had multi-part support (sometimes called "long SMS"), and that's what's used for sending long texts, not MMS.

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Re:Swisscom to discontinue MMS service by Hamuko on Thursday February 10, 2022 @05:22AM (#30284396)

I thought that long messages were already chunked.

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Re:Swisscom to discontinue MMS service by daneel_w on Thursday February 10, 2022 @09:16AM (#30286250)

Yes, they are chunked (multi-part) SMSes, not MMSes.

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