Vodafone Launching MMS fairly soon in Ireland...

spanner_head

Just was having a look around the vodafone website.
They are launching 'vodafone live' on November 7th.

http://www.vodafone.ie/live/index.jsp?pageid=1035541875177

LoBo

They've just launched that in the UK, though unfortunately all their links beyond the vodafone live page on vodafone.co.uk seem to be broken

They do mention MMS will be available there from Nov 4.

Anyone able to tell me price details for MMS on vodafone uk?

LoBo

solved broken links - I had 2 sessions open on the vodafone.co.uk site

Still, no pricing info found. Anyone?

spanner_head

Originally posted by LoBo

Still, no pricing info found. Anyone? [/QUOTE

Service Price
Send a picture message from £0.36
Polyphonic ringtones from £1.50
Games Arcade £1 - £5
Wallpaper £2.00
Screensaver £2.50

LoBo

*cough* just found that myself. It turns out after solving my multisession problems I was looking at vodafone.ie.... damn their multicountriness!
>
With FREE picture messaging and FREE access to many of the services on the Vodafone live! menu until 31st January 2003* put it in your diary an d get ready to go live!

Service Price
Send a picture message from #0.36
Polyphonic ringtones from #1.50
Games Arcade #1 - #5
Wallpaper #2.00
Screensaver #2.50
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if that's 36p (from??) looks like a decent price. Free until January sounds good. Hope they do something similar in Ireland

spanner_head

Its slightly cheaper here than UK.........

What will Picture messaging cost?

49c - To send a Picture Message from your mobile to another mobile, your/public/private library, and from the library on www.vodafone.ie

19c - To send a long Text Message (no picture just a message up to 1,000 characters in length) If you are a Pre or Post Pay customer

You can get a better idea here for Irish pricing.

http://www.enn.ie/news.html?code=8667200

sirlinux

i wonder will they enable existing mms handsets (e.g. t68i) or just the new live! ones

Dun

From the looks of it, all the phones are gonna have a dirty big Vodafone logo stuck on them. Which phone would be the best outta the three on offer?

Fidelis

Vodafone Live! is absolute muck. It's just glorified WAP & it's barely operable.

The Nokia 7650 was approved last Friday by Vodafone Irl. so it should hit the shops in about two weeks time.

bkehoe

MMS only 3 days away; does anybody know the settings for it yet?

Brendan.

seamus

Originally posted by bkehoe
MMS only 3 days away; does anybody know the settings for it yet?

Brendan.

Beleive me, they'll let you know the settings. This is being launched in the typical "This is the greatest thing since sliced bread" fashion amid fanfare.......

Moriarty

.... and still no sign of the 7210

bkehoe

Originally posted by Moriarty
.... and still no sign of the 7210

http://www.expansys.com/product.asp?code=7210

MiCr0

they came on my t68i
but i needed to test with vodafone italy - and now i can't remember them

Moriarty

Originally posted by bkehoe
http://www.expansys.com/product.asp?code=7210

If only i had the cash to blow on a simfree one, i wouldnt be waiting for vodafone to release it..

bkehoe

OK, I rang vodafone today, and yes MMS has now launched, and they said it was enabled on my account. I got the person I was talking to to email me out the instructions for setting it up on the 7650, and when I set it all up, it wont work. It just keeps delaying message sending for 10mins each time it trys. I'm trying to send it to myself, so maybe thats the problem. Has anyone else managed to get it working?

FYI, the settings are:
AP - mms.vodafone.net
User/Pass - dublin
Authentication - Normal (not Secure)
Gateway - 10.24.59.200
Homepage - http://10.29.105.14/servlets/mms

I think those are all the settings needed; just set your phone to use that gprs connection for mms and its supposed to work.

Brendan.

flywheel

Originally posted by bkehoe
Has anyone else managed to get it working?

exact same situation here - it tries to connect to the MMS access point mms.vodafone.net (G symbol blinks) - but it fails (box around the G never happens and it returns back the antenna symbol) - and nothing is sent

do they also have to enable the account for access to the MMS access point? - they had to do that when setting me up for WAP and Internet access points (though they might have done that automatically but appears not)

suppose it going to be the same situation as the Voda GPRS WAP and Internat launches - customer support need a couple of days to work out what's going on before it's a smooth set-up experience

vodafone don't seem to prepare or give the information in time to the customer support reps, they are always polite but you just know when someone is reading text off a screen for the first time

Brian G

bkehoe

Same thing with the G here too.
Well I asked if they had to set it up at their end (vodafone), but the person I was talking to said it was already enabled on my account. I'll be ringing back tomorrow if it still doesnt work.
Re GPRS; I had got them to set me up for the WAP back in April, but when they launched the internet one I didnt need to ring them, though I probably will get the 1MB one for the moment; have to try an O2 sim in the 7650 sometime and see how the signal is in it in my house.
Brendan.

MiCr0

10 mins and i'll have tried it on my t68i

MiCr0

my t68i came with 2 profiles included for data transfer
csd and gprs
and i'm refusing to use gprs at all because its too fking dear.

the csd profile didn't seem to work i'm afraid.

are you sure that the 7650's are setup right?

flywheel

well i followed the 102 steps they emailed me to the letter

just called them to check up as it looked like the MMS access point wasn't allowing me to connect - they said they aren't launching it until the 7th November - and it should work fine then (fingers crossed)

Brian G

flywheel

Originally posted by MiCr0
my t68i came with 2 profiles included for data transfer
csd and gprs

the csd profile didn't seem to work i'm afraid.

got the HSCSD (28.8k max on Ericssons) set-up and working on the T68i - i use it for checking pop email accounts out and about and sending pics over email - let me know if you want the set-up listed out

Brian G

MiCr0

afaik thats going to be the global access param's
(we'll they are the same in france and italy)

so roaming shouldn't be an issue

flywheel

O2 beat Vodafone to the MMS launch- Darth spotted it on their homepage:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=69108

Gaz

I wonder when the official launch is though ... there wasnt much of a song and dance about it

sirlinux

got mms working on vodafone with a t68i, only 93 steps in my e-mail!! works quite well, anyone any idea how much it is costing me though?

flywheel

here you go for Vodafone MMS

49c (inc VAT) - To send a Picture Message

full more info:
http://www.vodafone.ie/live/picturemess/index.jsp

sirlinux

looks like free until january

http://www.vodafone.ie/aboutus/company/press/2002/release25102002a.jsp

Nietzschean

i dunno if i'm reading that wrong or what but i make that free only to send the mms's to your online library, and free to browse certain wap type pages...

bkehoe

OK, now when i try to send a message, the g flashes once or twice, stays on for half a second (no box around it), and then it disappears and goes back to the normal antenna symbol. I'm going to ring them to see if it is enabled on my account or what..

bkehoe

OK, I rang up and they had to enable it on my account. Its now enabled, and the square appears around the G, but message sending still doesnt seem to happen, and it keeps delaying it after trying.

Edit: Eventually it came up that message sending failed, and the details says "Multimedia message centre not responding. Try again later."

Brendan