Swisscom to discontinue MMS service

Re:Swisscom to discontinue MMS service by shubhamkrm on Thursday February 10, 2022 @07:04AM (#30285019)

I thought SMS apps just split the text in 160 character chunks, and merge them on the receiving side. Isn't that how it works?

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Re:Swisscom to discontinue MMS service by nameequalsmain on Thursday February 10, 2022 @09:20AM (#30286306)

Yup, the parent comment is incorrect. SMS longer than 160 characters (in GSM 03.38 encoding) are split into multiple parts, each a maximum of 153 characters long, 7 characters are used to glue the parts together.

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Re:Swisscom to discontinue MMS service by kube-system on Thursday February 10, 2022 @10:37AM (#30287637)

I believe it depends the implementation. I recall having a phone that would explicitly indicate a switch to MMS when sending longer messages.

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Re:Swisscom to discontinue MMS service by WhyCause on Thursday February 10, 2022 @12:51PM (#30289925)

I too recall that. I suspect it was a boon for the carriers, eating into your MMS quota. At the time though, my plan was unlimited SMS/MMS, so it didn't really matter to me.

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