Multimedia messaging service (MMS) is a new development in mobile telecommunication messaging. It is an enhanced messaging technology from short messaging service (SMS). MMS allows its users to send more than just plan words by incorporating, in messages, sound and image.

With the new technology in mobile telecommunication, users are enabled to send and receive not only more enhanced messages between mobile phones, but also between mobile phones and email. This has been the reason for MMS to be more and more widely used for personal and business purposes. Due to its versatility, MMS has made itself to be a new technology that can be used for many purposes.

MMS is also very user-friendly. Users are able to create, delete and edit on MMS enabled mobile phones without any incorporation of complicated software. Because it is an extension of SMS, it is highly adoptable to the generation which is already familiar with SMS.

For more high end users, MMS is compatible to JPEG, GIF, AMR voice and many other common formats. MMS also handles unsupported formats in a controlled way. MMS is also developed for an open industry network. Hence, MMS are able to be communicated in existing networks and protocols.

Even though MMS has so far been a very high performance technology, but its transmission time still depends on the size of the message. Unlike SMS, in this case, MMS are designed to carry bigger messages across