Worst cell provider I have seen

[Charles Jones]

I've heard lots of people over the years complain about Sprint, Verizon, 
ATT/Cingular/MCI. Some I have agreed with and witnessed personally, some 
I have not. I recently stumbled upon the worst I have seen so far.

Quick background story, I was helping a friend who lives in Canada setup 
a "moblog", such that he can MMS pictures from his cellphone to an email 
address, and via some procmail and scripting the picture could be 
extracted and automatically uploaded to Gallery or the app of his choice 
(Yes I know you can do this with Flickr, Facebook, and other apps, but 
he prefers to control his own data and that's not what this post is 
about).  Anyhow, I get it setup for him but for some reason it's not 
working properly, and my logs show there are way more MIME objects than 
there should be, so I get him to take a picture with his phone, and send 
it to my Google mail address with the subject "testing".

Attached is a link to a screenshot 
<http://www.the-ownage.com/gallery/albums/Miscellaneous/rogersucks.png> 
of what I received. I couldn't believe it.  For anyone who doesn't want 
to click the link, here is a summary:

* No matter what subject he sets for his message, it gets overriden with 
"You have received a Picture Message from your Rogers Wireless friend..."
* Besides the picture that he meant to send, included in the message 
were a DOZEN OTHER ATTACHMENTS!
* ...including advertisements in picture format, and other needless crap 
like their logo banner, verisign logos, etc.

So basically the MMS "feature" of his cell service is useless, as they 
force in a bunch of spam images and override your subject and body text 
with their own. We tested and it does this even if sending 
mobile-to-mobile MMS. What are they thinking?

Simply Amazing.

http://www.the-ownage.com/gallery/albums/Miscellaneous/rogersucks.png
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