Sprint Adds Picture Messaging Service

Sprint and Bell Mobility customers are the first in North America to share pictures between wireless service providers with picture messaging by LightSurf.

From Sprint’s press release:

Sprint and LightSurf Technologies, a leading provider of open-standards technology and services for multimedia messaging, today announced the launch of North America’s first inter-operator picture messaging service for camera-phone users. The two companies, together with Bell Mobility, are leading the way in bringing seamless picture sharing to North American camera phone users.

“This announcement marks a turning point in the wireless industry, as inter-operator picture sharing will trigger rapid and wide-scale multimedia messaging adoption across North America,” said Andy Seybold, founder of Outlook 4Mobility. “LightSurf’s solution enables this innovation by providing operators a simple and reliable system to share pictures between networks.”

Multimedia messaging allows users to send messages in a combination of text, sounds and images. Industry analysts forecast that once multimedia messaging interoperability