Why don't I get MMS over wifi?

I don't know if this is a carrier issue (Simple Mobile) or a Firefox OS issue, but I can only receive MMS using my data plan. If I'm connected to a wireless netowrk/wifi hotspot, I do not receive MMS messages (in the case of group texts) or I get the message but cannot download the attached photo without turning wifi off and using the SIM card data.
There are two situations that I'm dealing with. First, when iphone users (and maybe others? Androids don't seem to do this) send an SMS message to multiple recipients, it comes as an MMS. If I'm home and connected to wifi I don't get the message or any indication that a message was sent. I leave the house (and the wifi network) and suddenly get a bunch of messages that are hours old.
Second, if anyone sends me a text with a photo attached, I get the text portion and then it says it is "Downloading ..." but the photo won't actually download until I turn wireless off.
SMS messages come through just fine.
I believe that I was able to get MMS via wifi at some point when I first got the phone but I'm not actually sure of that.

I was always able to recieve photos in SMS messages on my Android phone on Sprint. On my FirefoxOS phone on Simple, I cannot. I did contact Simple Mobile. This is their reply:
> Upon further review of your account, our system shows that it is provisioned in our system. Program your APN (Access Point Name) Settings for your Internet and Multimedia/Picture messaging to work using the following values:
>
> • APN Name: SIMPLE MOBILE
> • APN: simple
> • MMS APN: simple
> • MMSC: http://smpl.mms.msg.eng.t-mobile.com/mms/wapenc
>
> Please be advised that updating the APN settings of the phone does not guarantee that MMS (Multimedia/Picture Messaging) will work. MMS is dependent upon your phone model's limitations.
Those are the settings I already had. Per Ralph, I tried [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1046517#c12 adding MMS Port and Proxy settings]: under Settings > Cellular and Data > Message Settings I added
> mms proxy: 216.155.165.50
> mms port: 8080
I am still not able to send or recieve photos while connected to wifi.

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