MMS between Connex and Orange

Connex and Orange subscribers can now exchange multimedia messages (MMS) as of June 1, the officials of the two companies announced. The interconnection agreement signed by the main mobile telephony operators is intended to promote the multimedia messaging service, which allows users to send photos with text and sounds from their mobile phones. MMS is regarded as a service sure to boost the operators’ revenues soon. Orange Romania launched the service in October 2002 and Connex waited for almost one more year to do the same (November 2003). Orange saw about 50,000 such messages exchanged monthly on the average in Q1, compared with about 8,000 in Q1, 2003. Its revenues on this segment went up about four times in one year. Connex officials say the number of MMS messages was beyond expectations, with about 300,000 exchanged since the beginning of year. ZF