U.S. MMS interoperability is coming.

This is something people in other countries take for granted. You have a picture or audio file, you want to get it to someone who uses another network, you send it. They play it. No problem. (This particular image of MMS interoperability in action is from Russia.)

That's not the way it works here, where each network has its own technical standards, its own software standards, and its own bureaucratic gatekeepers.

Amazingly, this week's announcement is not the solution. It's an announcement that says folks are going to work toward a solution.

Yet they trumpet it like it's peace in our time. Amazing.