A small change to Google Messages settings moves where you can find who’s providing your Rich Communication Services (RCS).

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    7 months ago

    In the US, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon have slowly moved to Google’s Jibe platform after years of maintaining their own servers for Rich Communication Services

    I understand that the service is not provided by carriers any more but by Google.

    And they hide this information a bit further in the app.

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      7 months ago

      This sounds like a problem exclusive to the United States. In Canada all of our carriers still provide RCS. Rogers was one of the first major telcoms to implement RCS country-wide for Androids prior to the major rollout elsewhere.

      Additionally, RCS is a generally open standard that can be adopted by anyone and implemented by any carrier. Google only runs their RCS back-end when carriers are unwilling or unable to do so, like in other regions worldwide. RCS is interoperable and even if it’s a system being used by Google, it’s an open standard. Apple were the ones not allowing the interoperability here, and causing the centralization.

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        7 months ago

        This sounds like a problem exclusive to the United States.

        I think that in France it’s the same problem. But that hard to find informations about it.

        Apple were the ones not allowing the interoperability here, and causing the centralization.

        I don’t see why you say that. Can you explain?