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Carriers now looking to RCS as the messenger alternative, but if they price it like MMS, they will kill it. To do it cheaper, they have to give a large chunk of
by rutthenut 6y ago
Carriers now looking to RCS as the messenger alternative, but if they price it like MMS, they will kill it.
To do it cheaper, they have to give a large chunk of the service to Google, which gives Google the data mining opportunities :(
- mrweasel 6y agoMMS is free at this point, in many countries. The carriers in those countries will make more money by using RCS, because it will use cellular data (at least if I understand it correctly), which isn't free. My point being that I don't think many carriers care about text messaging, or phone calls. They sell you a fixed cost plan for those. The only thing that can really affect your price is data usage. If Google wants to deal with the hassle of managing a messaging platform, great, that's money save on running a service that isn't making money anyway.
- distances 6y agoIs RCS using Google infrastructure? I thought it stands for Rich Communication Services, the SIP/IMS based telco system?