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Leap, Verizon Begin Sharing Pictures

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May 23, 2005, 12:26 PM   by (staff)

Leap Wireless and Verizon today announced subscribers to the services can send MMS messages with pictures and video across the two networks. Subscribers can now send content directly to each others' handsets instead of receiving a text message to fetch the photos from a PC. This is the first carrier Leap has announced interoperability with for its Cricket subscribers. Verizon and Cingular entered into a cross-network MMS agreement in March.

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johnpaul191

May 25, 2005, 1:14 PM

what's Leap?

i assume a provider..... how big are they?

i had no idea VZW hooked up a deal with Cingular though, so this story taught me something useful.
Leap=Cricket
lexical

May 24, 2005, 11:16 PM

When...?

Is this supposed to be in efect now? I tested it with my VZW phone and my friends Cricket. Whenever she sent me a pic, I'd get the "You've Got Pix" text message. However, when I went to the site my inbox would be empty. Maybe her ohne just sucks or she wasn't doing it right 😛
grapkoski

May 23, 2005, 4:05 PM

Where is Sprint?

Now why hasn't Sprint tried to work with VZ for this capability! Ugh....
must be that guy in the black trench coat 🤣
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I think it's because Sprint may be the only carrier not using MMS.

Unlike the other carriers, Sprint's "Picture Mail" technically isn't MMS, it's a proprietary system developed by a company called Lightsurf.

Sprint has said they are working on i...
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