"Excactly opposite thing here in Russia. It costs next to nothing to send a small amount of data via EDGE/3G and MMS are quite expensive and there is *NO* flat rate (nor there is one for SMS)" same in uk. "Which does not make interoperability really working thing anyways :-)) I've found it almost certainly impossible to send MMS to another country and quite problematic to send to a different cellular operator. " yep i got a blank txt from spain new years day morning(sent to my iphone)- because my sis sent me a mms from spain