Without price blow, mms fails

Without price blow is Multimedia Messaging Service (mms) in the Netherlands doomed till a marginal existence. That stilt Netsize, a business that self specializes in mobile concise and entertainment-applications.

The business wanted to export a study to the success of mms, the multimediale expansion of the sms. Mms can contain next to text also photographs and sound. Only although the most apparatuses, that can in the Netherlands in circulation its with mms grade crossing, becomes the option here scarcely uses. Many men find the sending of a mms too to last-you simply: a message costs between the 25 and 50 euro penny.

In the foreign country, price abasements gave the mms-use an impulse. It stimulates according to Netsize new services as a mobile lottery in England, mms-picture postcards in Germany and a real mms-soap in Spain. Will mms in the Netherlands a commercial success can become, would must then the price with about 50 per cent down.

T-Mobile reports desgevraagd that there indeed a robust discrepancy is between sms and mms. In an average month, 40 million sms are sent' jes, inform against only 200 thousand mms-, tells spokeswoman Liselore Stuut.

On this moment, telecomproviders figure inform nearly the same rates for mms-. There are however no indications for an on hands zijnde price war.