Mobile Multimedia

Long before bandwidth has reached acceptable levels for most fixed-line users, we are already beginning to talk about taking multimedia content to the cell phones. The hoopla is called Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), and the idea is to take the already booming business of SMS – text messages – and turn it into a business bonanza of transferring huge files across the wireless phone networks. But the long-touted next step for mobile telephony is dragging its feet.