o2's email system and it's 3gp/avi email transcoding 'feature'

Link: Tom on Identity » A Feature of O2 Mobile Email

I’ve come up against an interesting problem: O2’s email servers are stripping out attached 3GP videos, transcoding them to a lower quality (but higher file size) AVI, attaching the AVI and sending the email on to the recipient with a link back to O2’s website in certain situations

You have to wonder why — various rather silly technical reasons permitting — o2, and other operators, can’t just give people open internet access. Plain. Simple. Open. Internet. Like T-Mobile.