XPost: alt.cellular.verizon, alt.online-service.verizon, 0.verizon.discussion-general
On the same carrier, SMS and MMS are a feature of the cellular network itself.
Between carriers, they travel via email gateways. When there are lots of events going on that have people texting, those can be so overloaded that it takes
a day, day and a half, before the message is received.
MMS is more complex than SMS, so carrier support (and that of their
email gateway or the carrier one's recipient uses) might not be as good, although as long as MMS has been around, I'm not sure I entirely buy that explanation.
RCS is the newer approach, it goes over the Internet using cellular data.
Major carriers support it directly; minor carriers mostly don't yet. I think Google Messages can do it regardless.
I suppose it might be that an Android sender's phone doesn't know you don't have RCS support yet.
iOS 18 on iPhone will have RCS support (better experience communicating with Android users), but not encryption, since that's not standardized yet.
In article <
bOGdnaKcqvthBeX7nZ2dnZfqn_udnZ2d@earthlink.com>,
ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) writes:
Hello,
iPhone 12 mini's iOS Message app doesn't always get MMS images from
others like Android users. However, VZW's Message+ iOS app always get
them. Both do get regular SMSes fast. How come and to fix this?
Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)
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