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Story: MMS firms hope for a sporting chance

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Something tells me that this has a lot less to do with the technologies as the mobile phone companies would like to believe and more to do with the cost.

A 55% take up of MMS in a matter of years shows a very tech savvy user base and of that only 17% do not know how, the fact that people were so willijng to shell out on camera phones shows that it's not a matter of picture quality either.

Purely it comes down to price, obviously texts serve a greater purpose than pictures ever will but at 40p per MMS more if a large file, menas that the general public are unlikely to sent a picture without thinking about the cost.

While text messages come in bundles and are reasonably priced to begin with, Picture messages are likely to run up costs very quickly. Until the advent of a widespread 3G network and/or cheaper picture messages this is likely to remain.

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