Picture message/MMS over WIFI???

The Only carrier known to support MMS over wifi is T-mobile. I am hopping that other carriers will adopt this policy as in my opinion advertising unlimited picture messaging and then charging for data usage is misleading.

I am also having trouble sending picture messages. Are you able to send them when you are not using wifi?
According to everything I have read, picture messages/MMS go through the 3G service, not wifi. What I did was turn off wifi when I was troubleshooting to make sure I had 3G service. With 3G and 3 bars signal the pic txt would go to 90% and hang until it failed to send. My husband, sitting next to me with his Fascinate (3 bars signal also) was sending picture texts no problem.
I am finding that my picture texts only go thru when I have 4 bars... and the quality of the picture received on the other end is horrible and grainy. Not even worth it.

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  • I cannot receive MMS over WiFi- anyone else struggling? (2nd post)

    Original post:
         I cannot receive MMS over WiFi- anyone else struggling?
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    schaweet
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