Enhanced multi-media messaging services that permit oversized messages

A multimedia messaging service center (MMSC) server comprising:

• a network communication system configured to receive MMS messages from a computer network that each originated from a sender;
• an oversized MMS message detection subsystem configured to detect when a received MMS message exceeds an allowable size limit;
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• an oversized MMS message management subsystem configured to automatically divide each received oversized MMS message into smaller MMS messages that are each within the allowable size limit and to cause each of the smaller MMS messages to be delivered.

A multimedia messaging service (MMS) subsystem comprising:

• a user interface configured to communicate MMS messages to a user;
• a fragment MMS message detection subsystem configured to detect when a received MMS message is part of a larger MMS message;
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• a fragment MMS message consolidation subsystem configured to consolidate all detected fragment MMS messages into the larger MMS message of which they are a part and to cause the user interface to deliver the larger consolidated MMS message to the user.