What Is the Cost of MMS Marketing? The difference in cost varies from provider to provider. With SimpleTexting’s text messaging platform, MMS costs 3 credits per message. SMS, on the other hand, costs 1 credit per message. In case you’re wondering, “Why should I pay more for MMS?
MMS stands for Multimedia Messaging Service and we use it whenever we attach a media file (photo, video, or audio) to a standard SMS message. The technology is from 1984, but its commercial launch came much later, in 2002. It didn’t start gaining traction until much later, though, arou...
texting applications. You’ve also probably heard of different acronyms like SMS and MMS and come across popular mobile text messagingapps like iMessage, WhatsApp, and WeChat. We discuss what each of these terms mean and the differences in the technologies powering them. In particular, we’ll...
Don’t lose sleep over this message, as this does not mean the message is hung up in space. Green bubbles on an iPhone are usually associated with a message being sent to another device that does not support iMessage. Other causes include iMessage being disabled on the device or ...
We answer all these questions (and more) in our total guide to SMS vs MMS. We’ll help you understand which texting technology is right for you and what’s new in the world of business text messaging. What is SMS? What does SMS mean? Simply, an SMS is a text message. In technica...
Here’s a quick chart for you to reference thatcompares SMS/MMS and RCSfor a few common factors. Exciting rich communication services features What does RCS do better than SMS texting? Well, just about everything! Better security, better branding:Fullyverified sender IDsfor brands means that mo...
While not specifically mentioned it likely means MMS-based limitations on media file sharing will also be gone. Any Android user that’s been sent a video file from an iPhone will know that the video quality tends to be pretty appalling. At the very least you should be able to receive...
10DL numbers are existing mobile phone numbers, already assigned to your business. They support voice communications and MMS messages, but they do not have delivery receipts (which short codes do). Toll-free numbers. Toll-free numbers start with one of the toll-free codes (such as 800, 888...
The future is unknown, but in the meantime, for text marketers, you can keep your primary focus on the tried-and-true methods of SMS and MMS. RCS FAQ What Does “RCS Message” Mean? “RCS message” means “Rich Communication Services.” It refers to Android’s relatively new texting ser...
To everybody's surprise, Apple has announced that it will implement the RCS (Rich Communication Services) messaging protocol via a software update later in 2024. But what does this mean for iPhone owners trying to text non-Apple users?