MMS woes

Steve of iTagg sent this in:

I was on a stag do in Oxford this weekend and of course the moment came when we wanted to send a picture of the groom wearing his lovely red dress in a public bar back to his fiancee. There were 10 guys sat round the table who were very intelligent people with big jobs in banking, IT, etc and several sporting smart looking mobile handsets.

I had left my mobile in the hotel. Of the others only one knew how to send an MMS from his mobile. Several said they knew it was possible but “believed” their phone hadn’t been configured for it. The others admitted they had never sent an MMS and didn’t know how. The one guy who did manage to send it was on O2 and it took him an hour whilst we walked around the town from one bar to another before he managed to get a signal good enough for the message to leave his handset.

So all in all a dire state of affairs when 8 out of 10 people don’t know how to use one of the most prevailent functions on their handset.

And then when someone does they are let down by very poor network coverage.

I encounter this sort of thing regularly. It’s a total arse, it really is. It’s particularly annoying when you encounter people who wouldn’t care about the cost of sending a ton of MMS… however because they don’t have a clue how to do it, or because they ‘tried-it-once, never-worked’, they simply don’t bother. Really annoying.

If you’ve got any anecdotes like this, please do send them in.