DALLAS-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. network partner Edge Wireless L.L.C. deployed Alcatel’s Multimedia Messaging Services system designed to enable Edge Wireless customers to send and receive MMS messages. Alcatel noted the service allows users to send messages to other MMS-enabled handsets and between e-mail addresses and mobile phones.
AT&T Wireless launched a similar service for its GSM-based customers as have a number of other GSM and CDMA carriers.