MTN GPRS/MMS Settings for Any Phone
MTN sightz&soundz is the MTN MMS service (Multimedia Messaging Service) that allows our customers to share life's most beautiful experiences in more ways than just sending an ordinary text message.
With this exciting new service you can send messages that can include pictures, sounds, video clips and other sounds such as ringtones, as well as text, to other users. This extraordinary experience is all made possible through 'GPRS' technology. GPRS is a technology that allows a mobile phone to be able to send and receive data (e.g. browse the Internet) in a quicker, more efficient way.
To enjoy MTN sightz&soundz, all you to need is to just a get a Multimedia Mobile phone. Then go to MTN website and confirm that yours phone is multimedia enabled.
You can set up MTN sightz&soundz on your mobile phone in any of the following ways:
1) Via MMS
2) Manual Set Up
You can see our FAQs if you have any question.
MTN sightz&soundz SMS Set Up
You can request for MTN sightz&soundz settings by typing the word SETTINGS as an SMS and send to 3888 at no cost. You will receive an SMS notifying you to save setup information that will be sent thereafter. Please save the settings as soon as they are delivered to your phone to avoid deleting them in error.
Thereafter you get a welcome SMS, encouraging you to send an MMS to yourself to be able to receive MMS in the future.
After your phone is setup, you must do a location update by switching your phone off and back on again.
If after a few trials, your phone still does not receive the settings you need for MTN sightz&soundz, visit your nearest MTN Connect or call 180 for more tips.
MTN sightz&soundz Manual Set Up
There are some phones that can only be setup manually. Please click here to see if yours is one of them. To setup your phone manually, you need to enter the following information, as applicable, on your phone:
GPRS/WAP
Account Name = MTN GPRS
IP Address = 10.199.212.2
Port = 9201 (for WAP) or 8080 (for HTML)
Username = web
Password = web
Access Point Name (APN) = web.gprs.mtnnigeria.net
MMS
Name = MTN MMS
Access Point Name (APN) = web.gprs.mtnnigeria.net
Service Centre Address = http://10.199.212.8/servlets/mms
IP Address = 10.199.212.2
Port = 9201 (for WAP) or 8080 (for HTML)
Username = web
Password = web
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