Reasons for "Message Send Failure"?

Today my MMS stopped working. Every time I try to send a photo, the progress bars loads until it's almost full but then I get a "Message Send Failure" notice. Regular texts and call go through just fine though. I'm hoping that maybe it's just AT&T's network? Could it be a more serious problem?

If you can send/receive SMS's but not MMS's, 99.9% of the time the problem rests with your carrier, so contact AT&T.

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That said, it was an intriguing enough question that I did some poking around as well. There is a socket exception class, but generally speaking, the only methods that throw socket exceptions tend to deal with defining, creating and closing the socket.
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