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Is there a sunset timeline for SMS? No service lasts forever and if Apple knows carriers will want to turn it off sometime they'd have to get on board with the
by whoopdedo 3y ago
Is there a sunset timeline for SMS? No service lasts forever and if Apple knows carriers will want to turn it off sometime they'd have to get on board with the RCS sooner rather than too late.
- freedomben 3y agoApple is big enough that they could make the carriers keep SMS. If a carrier tried to remove it and break "compatibility" with the iPhone, Apple would block that carrier from having iPhones altogether, which would decimate that carriers business. So through a causative chain, Apple could force carriers to keep SMS.
- threeseed 3y agoa) Apple doesn't decide whether carriers keep SMS. Governments do. b) Apple won't stop users from using a particular carrier because of commercial considerations. It would be a clear breach of anti-competition laws. c) Many carriers don't have relationships with Apple to sell the iPhone. And in many places internationally the iPhone is not even that popular. What matters is whether you can buy a SIM and install it into your phone.
- lxgr 3y agoProbably never. At the very least, RCS itself needs SMS for account provisioning on a new device. I also don't see every business relying on SMS for B2C messaging (and in particular for SMS-OTP) switching to RCS anytime soon.
- averageRoyalty 3y agoWho would be in charge of sunsetting such a thing?
- Symbiote 3y agoThe GSM Association. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSMA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSMA
- dagmx 3y agoCan SMS ever be sunsetted? There’s a lot of infrastructure that depends on it at the edges of networks. Maybe for consumer facing use but I think it’s here to stay for our lifetime
- qingcharles 3y agoThey can't sunset it until the networks include unlimited data for free in your plan, otherwise you would never be able to receive any messages.