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US carries haven't charged per message in like a decade.

• GekkePrutser 4y ago
  No but when RCS was invented they still did because they hadn't lost the war with messaging apps yet.
• dalyons 4y ago
  That’s only sort of true. Consumers don’t pay directly, but the carriers charge each other for them, and they still make a lot off people injecting sms into the system (think twilio, marketing, 2fa, application generated traffic). RCS was aimed (and priced) to try and make lots of money off a2p