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Article author here, I didn't look into this as I naively assumed that the consolidation around Jibe would make this use case better than SMS, not worse. I see
by hocuspocus 2y ago
Article author here, I didn't look into this as I naively assumed that the consolidation around Jibe would make this use case better than SMS, not worse.
I see a lot of providers on this page: https://jibe.google.com/partners/messaging-partners/ https://jibe.google.com/partners/messaging-partners/
Including Twilio, Sinch, ...
- cyberax 2y agoYep, to make RCS business messaging useful, you'll have to use a middle-man like Twilio. They take care to sign contracts with individual RCS carriers. And some carriers might refuse interconnections entirely (as a result, Twilio supports only a subset of countries). And of course, this is not cheap. Carriers don't have any market pressure to compete on the RCS interconnection price. So you'll be paying not-insignificant per-message fees over the IP infrastructure.