AT&T to Welcome iPhone Users to 2003 Tomorrow
by John Paczkowski
Posted on September 24, 2009 at 11:24 AM PT
AT&T has finally completed the very important “internal system upgrades” that prevented it from supporting multimedia messaging service on Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone. And at some point late tomorrow morning, the carrier will release an update enabling MMS.
“We know you’ve been eager for this service so we wanted to offer a quick update on the launch plans for MMS on Friday, Sept. 25,” AT&T explained on its official Facebook page. “Late morning, Pacific Time, on Friday, the new carrier settings update enabling MMS should be live and ready to download through iTunes.”
Assuming everything goes as planned. And sources inside AT&T (T) tell DSL Reports that the carrier is “very nervous” that it might not. “AT&T and its MMS partners are already seeing ‘record traffic during peak hours of the night’ with just the users selected for testing,” the publication says. “That early testing has been a little rocky, with AT&T seeing a fairly significant test outage yesterday that has them rushing to beef up their MMSC messaging servers. Estimates among those working on the project are that traffic on AT&T’s wireless network will be about 40 percent higher all day on Friday as iPhone users fire pictures and video at one another.”
Comments
Best comment I’ve seen elsewhere…
http://twitter.com/Mr_Richard/status/3740214076
“Man, on september 25th at&t’s network is going to implode under the pressure of 10 million white girls throwing up gang signs.”
Posted by Michael Croft at September 24th, 2009 at 11:50 amI don’t think this will be that big a deal. Most won’t even know it is happening. And AT&T is rolling it out gradually to a few users at a time, not switching them all on at once.
Posted by Fred Hamranhansenhansen at September 24th, 2009 at 4:06 pm