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Never. It is just a fancy MMS in new disguise. Carriers / patent holders will hold to it forever while praising it as the new best thing.
by bebna 2y ago
Never. It is just a fancy MMS in new disguise. Carriers / patent holders will hold to it forever while praising it as the new best thing.
- singpolyma3 2y agoYou can get access to send MMS though. RCS there is no one selling access yet, especially for person to person.
- WorldPeas 2y agoIt seems people are, but not anyone with a big name: https://jibe.google.com/partners/messaging-partners/ https://jibe.google.com/partners/messaging-partners/ I'm guessing it's provisioned this way. https://developers.google.com/business-communications/rcs-business-messaging/guides/get-started/register-partner https://developers.google.com/business-communications/rcs-bu... EDIT: https://github.com/android-rcs/rcsjta https://github.com/android-rcs/rcsjta
- singpolyma3 2y agoYes the Google Business stuff exists for B2C marketing type use cases, but it is a very limited feature set compared to real RCS and cannot be used for regular communications using phone numbers.
- lxgr 2y agoI believe GP's objection is to not being able to access RCS from a non-Google-provided app on Android, not access to the RCS network on the backend side.
- singpolyma3 2y agoEither might be useful but I'm actually more interested in the latter because I run a phone service
- lxgr 2y agoI believe even then only US carriers (the rest of the world has moved on from P2P SMS, and only businesses are really still sending them for SMS-OTP and marketing), and of course Google, as the only party actually invested in it (via their acquisition of Jibe [1]). [1] https://jibe.google.com/ https://jibe.google.com/