Apple is supporting RCS and RBM on iOS devices. Find out what it means for the future of messaging.
You’ll either see a “your carrier doesn’t support chat” meaning the services isn’t available yet and you’ll just have to wait for the prompt, or you’ll see options in here to enable it, whether you are connected or not and some features options. Now, Samsung is also reportedly...
the cellular carriers created the "Cross-Carrier Messaging Initiative (CCMI)," a joint venture between AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon that would roll out enhanced messaging to the masses in 2020. Now,Light Readingis reporting that initiative is dead, meaning that the carriers have ...
First, while RCS messages are encrypted in transit, they are not end-to-end encrypted, meaning your RCS provider (Google or your carrier) can read your messages. Since RCS is a GSMA standard built to replace SMS, end-to-end encryption just isn't in the spec. This puts the syste...
According to research, 1.01 billion people will be using RCS messaging over 168 mobile operators worldwide by the end of the year. This is expected to grow to 3.23 billion people over 486 mobile operators by the end of 2023, meaning marketers may want to start considering RCS messaging’s ...
and do more over mobile data and even Wi-Fi. Rather than wait for carriers to adopt the RCS protocol on their own, Google started to roll out RCS support in the Google Messages appfor everyone in the UK and France. They later rolled out RCS support in the Messages app for peopl...