Comment by simfree
2 years ago
There are no third party RCS apps outside of hardware manufacturer skins on Google Messages as Google has shut them all out.
If you want to interact with the RCS world as a non-wireless carrier, expect to pay upwards of 10 cents a message and have a minimum revenue commit of thousands of dollars a month. Carriers also don't get paid for inbound texts on RCS, creating a huge new cost center instead of symmetrical texting volume resulting in minimal costs like the current SMS/MMS ecosystem.
This is untrue, the US carriers had a "cross-carrier" consortium that had built most of its own RCS stack, complete with animating dots when the other party was typing, and good image and video support. But Samsung refused to use it (not sure if Google was bribing them in the background) so it got killed in favor of supporting Google's flavor of RCS.
Any source for that? Afaict, every Telco now use Google's RCS stack.
I also can't remember what it was called, but every Telxo uses Google's because of its failure.
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