Messaging Applications

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AT&T's wireless network supports a number of messaging technologies that provide capabilities for sending text, images, and audio to mobile customers. Use these tools to choose the right messaging method for your enterprise- or consumer-focused application.

Messaging Technologies

Messaging technologies allow you to create highly interactive mobile applications. AT&T's wireless network supports a number of messaging technologies that provide capabilities for sending text, images, and audio to mobile customers.

Messaging Privacy

AT&T has a strong business interest in protecting our customers from spam. We have developed and implemented systems in our network to reduce spam, and if your program causes messages we consider to be spam to be sent through our network, our systems may block these messages.

External Access Gateway (EAG)

The External Access Gateway (EAG) enables AT&T to provide consistent service creation and access control for all third party Content Providers. EAG affects the way in which network connectivity is handled for SMS, MMS, and WAP Push applications.

Short Message Service (SMS)

Short Message Service (SMS), also known as text messaging, is a collection of capabilities that allow you to transmit and receive data messages of a limited size (160 bytes) across two endpoints of a cellular network, one or both of which may be a mobile subscriber.

Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS)

Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) allows users to send and receive messages that can include video, images, text, audio, and Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) formatting.

WAP Push

The WAP Push protocol allows you to send messages and alerts that may include a URL link that the subscriber can accept to initiate a browser session directly. WAP Push messages can deliver rich content such as images and audio. WAP Push programming can open the device browser automatically, giving the user a richer experience.

Enterprise Paging

Today, AT&T business subscribers use Enterprise Paging for the notifications they rely on to operate their business. Enterprise Paging enables them to dump their pagers and receive their mission critical notifications on any AT&T text messaging-capable mobile device.