Last week I bought a SIM card for using it with my existing Samsung SGH-D500 mobile phone. If you need the number, you can request it from me by mail.

One of the reasons I bought a SIM card instead of a new mobile phone with Claro offers incoluded was MMS and WAP. I want to continue to moblog here. But the Claro package did not contain any information about configuring MMS or GPRS (but it contained an EULA of 10 pages or so).

So I browsed the Web and found some information about how to configure GPRS (this or this - TIM just became Claro so the same settings should apply). Unfortunately this did not work. It appears that I’m able to connect through GPRS but then the connection times out. Sending MMS does not work, either.

So today I went to the local Claro store for help. But they were not very helpful. They told me to buy some software (called “Actualización de software mensaje multimedia” or in English “Multimedia message software actualisation”). Up until now I was pretty sure, that GPRS and MMS are worldwide standards. But it seems that the mobile phone industry is even worse at standards than the software industry.

Well, hopefully I’ll be able to send MMS messages from Peru one day. But it may take a trip to the main Claro centre.