Re: Re: PC to MMS message?

[LeeUKHA <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I may be wrong here (I rarely use GPRS these days), but I'm sure there
is also a 'frame size', which amounts to the smallest 'unit' of data
sent/recieved by the network, which can be as big as 10KBytes, which may
make a big dent here...

Lee

> Steve Cooper wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Answering my own message here I think.  I believe that a
combination
> > of a text message and then GPRS surfing to it will always be
cheaper
> > as the images are only 12K in size and even on Vodafones max GPRS
> > tariff of 0.75p per KB that's only about 10p to get the picture.
>
>
> If only... You pay per byte for GPRS, and that includes all the TCP/IP
> overheads (in both directions) involved in transferring a 12k image
from
> a web/wapserver. By their very nature, GPRS links probably drop quite
a
> lot of packets, so it could be a fair amount more than 12k worth of
> traffic (seemed that way when I tried collecting significant
quantities
> of email by mobile once). At least MMS costs are fixed...
>
> Jim