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RCS UK Carrier Support for iOS

You've jumped the gun a bit there. Give it time.

Three have implemented it now on beta so that's in the pipeline.
Vodafone are in talks with Google Jibe to add it to their IMS core...

The only network that has been totally silent this entire time is O2, and well, there's a surprise...

UK providers have a hard time getting anything working correctly. Why put yourself out for a service that has no actual benefit?
 
UK providers have a hard time getting anything working correctly. Why put yourself out for a service that has no actual benefit?
There's no benefit in sending a text or high quality picture to someone without having to install an app, create an account, accept terms and conditions, and send all your contacts to some random service? I think there is.

RCS is a standard from the GSMA and is supposed to eventually replace SMS/MMS. iPhones having bugs, UK networks moving slowly, etc, are problems, but like other technologies (eg: VoLTE/VoNR), I don't think RCS is going away.
 
There's no benefit in sending a text or high quality picture to someone without having to install an app, create an account, accept terms and conditions, and send all your contacts to some random service? I think there is.

RCS is a standard from the GSMA and is supposed to eventually replace SMS/MMS. iPhones having bugs, UK networks moving slowly, etc, are problems, but like other technologies (eg: VoLTE/VoNR), I don't think RCS is going away.
Like ISDN, RCS will become obsolete by the time all the bugs are sorted out. The rise of VoIP will allow people to unbundle their voice and SMS service and avoid some of the carrier-created problems.
 
Like ISDN, RCS will become obsolete by the time all the bugs are sorted out. The rise of VoIP will allow people to unbundle their voice and SMS service and avoid some of the carrier-created problems.

RCS is supported by Android and iOS, device support is mandatory in countries like China, Google bypasses networks that doesn't support it natively, my parents use it without knowing what RCS is, etc. That's where RCS is today.

Maybe RCS will be the 3G of messaging and will disappear before SMS/2G does - I don't know - but using SMS and MMS over IP doesn't fix their limitations. Even with VoIP, we need something that supports modern features.

I don't expect RCS to be as good as other alternatives as it's not centralised and no one is forced to support new features, but that doesn't make it useless. Having a better SMS/MMS is useful, even if I continue using WhatsApp, Signal, etc, for most of my chats.

Regarding VoIP, for it to be reliable, data needs to be reliable... and for me data still far from being as reliable as regular calls (London and South East England with a dual SIM setup). For it to be adopted, people also need to switch from getting everything from their network to paying their network for data and a 3rd party for calls and texts... I think that's something nerds like me might do, but not something most people want to do.
 
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