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Why, exactly, would Apple and Google not be able to fallback to SMS? Without involving carriers at all? It's not like there's any real benefit to having the ca
by mynameisvlad 4y ago
Why, exactly, would Apple and Google not be able to fallback to SMS? Without involving carriers at all?
It's not like there's any real benefit to having the carriers in that conversation, you can already text from either device just fine. That would continue into the future.
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- mongol 4y agoSMS is not transferred over the internet. It is transferred over a telecoms network. Only the carriers can deliver a SMS message. I guess it is possible to deliver a message over the internet to a SMS gateway somewhere, but as SMS is telecoms technology, only internet is not enough.
- mynameisvlad 4y agoFirst of all, SMS is based on a common protocol used across carriers. Each carrier does not need to individually support each model of device, and vice versa-- as long as both the phone and the carrier support the decades-old standard, your messages will get routed to a SMSC and from there to the recipient. The carriers are not involved in this process at all aside from setting up the industry standard protocols involved. It's also all or nothing, there's no identifying characteristic on a message saying "this was sent by that iPhone we don't want to support anymore". Additionally, 5G SMS does generally go over IP as SMSoIP: https://www.iplook.com/info/what-are-the-changes-of-sms-in-5g-era-i00037i1.html https://www.iplook.com/info/what-are-the-changes-of-sms-in-5...