Leap, Verizon Begin Sharing Pictures
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.
source: Leap
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what's Leap?
i had no idea VZW hooked up a deal with Cingular though, so this story taught me something useful.
When...?
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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