AT&T reportedly anxious about the MMS launch this Friday

It seems AT&T may be having seconds thoughts about offering MMS to iPhone customers, if the reports filtering out of DSLReports are any indication

iPhone MMS

According to the article, “AT&T is extremely nervous about the impending launch of MMS for the iPhone scheduled for this Friday”.

It seems early testing of the MMS features has put a strain on the network, and they’ve had to shore up things beyond what they anticipated, which isn’t good to hear even before the feature launches to millions of iPhone users. They report telling sources “they are seeing record traffic just in the testing phase of the MMS launch”.

Some sources have said that iPhone MMS could push AT&T traffic on their network up by as much as 40% as it launches initially, and they fear it could cause outages or poor performance.

They also shared with everyone what AT&T’s procedures are for launching the service: At 10AM EST on Friday, they slowly plan on mass texting users to let them know the feature is turned on in bunches over the course of date. Every hour more users will be added until the process is complete.

Pardon us if we don’t have a lot of confidence in how well it’ll work the first few days, given AT&T’s last minute scramble described above. We’ll cross our fingers and post an update if things change in the meantime.

Posted on Sep 23rd, 2009 by Philip King in iPhone News | 7 Comments

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7 Comments to “AT&T reportedly anxious about the MMS launch this Friday”

  1. on 24 Sep 2009 at 2:07 am1iphonedeveloperthailand

    Not a good sign if you’re already maxing out before game day…

  2. on 24 Sep 2009 at 1:34 pm2His Majesty David

    We already use the MMS feature on your iPhones…and no, we didn’t jailbreak our phones. Can’t wait to see what Friday brings. Another “Y2K scare?”

  3. on 24 Sep 2009 at 4:20 pm3UrNotHotChill

    AT&T why won’t you let us be great?!?!

  4. on 25 Sep 2009 at 3:25 pm4Zach kurth

    I cant find it! Its probably an itunes update.

  5. on 25 Sep 2009 at 9:42 pm5Joe from CT

    Well rumor was At&t would send text messages to customers has yet to happen. Will try and update the phone once I get a chance and report my results here.

  6. on 26 Sep 2009 at 12:24 pm6Joe from CT

    Just sync up to iTunes check for a new version and your carrier settings will be updated. After the sync restart your iPhone and mms will be there and it works although pretty slow.

  7. on 27 Sep 2009 at 6:23 am7TV on the Brain

    “Well rumor was At&t would send text messages to customers has yet to happen”

    Maybe read before making comments? They said they were going to do it in batches. I got mine Friday afternoon, so they have, in fact sent these out.

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