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I have been searching for MMS API provider, but couldn't find any. I was hoping this news is about Twilio supporting MMS but it is not. What is difficult about supporting MMS? No one seems to offer it.
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Would it be possible for users to send an MMS to an email address instead of a phone number? I don't mean using an email client. I mean type in a@example.com in the field where one would normally type phone numbers. I don't have email on my iPhone and I often use iMessage to email pics to myself. You might not get 2-way communication easily but it could be a good option regardless.
In fact, here's a pull request for the necessary changes. https://github.com/jpf/filepicker-twilio-example/pull/1/file...
I got excited thinking that Twilio finally supported sending images... but all this article describes is sending a link to an image via SMS.
Google Voice barely supports MMS messages properly; I think it'll be a while before Twilio supports it (although I could be mistaken). If you're a Twilio folk on here, care to share roadmap?
I have been searching for MMS API provider, but couldn't find any. I was hoping this news is about Twilio supporting MMS but it is not. What is difficult about supporting MMS? No one seems to offer it.
MMS is largely just an SMS with a link to a file. It's pretty easy to send a link to a file hosted somewhere.
I have been searching for MMS API provider, but couldn't find any. I was hoping this news is about Twilio supporting MMS but it is not. What is difficult about supporting MMS? No one seems to offer it.
Cellular networks still have to interop with SS7. On most major large Cellular networks this is accomplished with a protocol called IMS. Integrated Multimedia Subsystem provides wrappers for non-IP transactions to allow IP controls over analog equipment. Put simply: stuff that isn't IP gets broken up and wrapped in IP before it can go on the network.
Because of this, and other factors, making a picture messaging system that operates over this structure is difficult. So difficult that virtually all of the MMSC (MMS Gateways) are proprietary and prohibitively expensive.
Why doesn't anyone support MMS? Because it costs too much.
I have been searching for MMS API provider, but couldn't find any. I was hoping this news is about Twilio supporting MMS but it is not. What is difficult about supporting MMS? No one seems to offer it.
I have been searching for MMS API provider, but couldn't find any. I was hoping this news is about Twilio supporting MMS but it is not. What is difficult about supporting MMS? No one seems to offer it.
MMS is largely just an SMS with a link to a file. It's pretty easy to send a link to a file hosted somewhere.
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MMS is largely just an SMS with a link to a file. It's pretty easy to send a link to a file hosted somewhere.
Is it possible to use Twilio SMS API to receive MMS message? Am I be able to receive SMS in backend and decode the data to get the link to the image?
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MMS is largely just an SMS with a link to a file. It's pretty easy to send a link to a file hosted somewhere.
Anthony here, Mogreet CTO. MMS is not at all like SMS under the hood. While links are theoretically supported, in practical real life the content (images, video, audio, etc) is encoded into the MM7 body, and delivered all together to the handset. Check out our docs online for much more about what you can do: https://developer.mogreet.com/docs anthor