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

  • smoothbrain coldtakes@lemmy.ca
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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?