Businesses Can Now Use RCS To Send Messages to Android Users in US

We'd already seen glimpses of Google'south plans for RCS messaging in Android, thanks to the latest Android Messages app.

Now, according to a web log postal service from Google, the company is bringing this feature to businesses in the US in a bid to replace SMS with RCS, or Rich Communication Services. RCS is a GSM standard and, offers richer content and a more interactive interface than the older SMS technology.

As part of Google'due south  push to popularize the new platform, it has been working with many businesses in the United states of america and Mexico to adopt the new standard that volition permit them to offer branding, rich media, interactivity and analytics to their consumers who use the 'Android Messages' app on their smartphone.

Google says that Sprint, Subway, SnapTravel,  1-800 Contacts, 1-800-Flowers.com and Booking.com will be amidst the outset companies in the U.S. to adopt the new standard. Messaging partners will include 3C, CM.com, Mobivity, OpenMarket, Smooch and Twilio. The visitor is too planning a launch in United mexican states, and towards that stop, is working with 5 Piso, Broxel, DHL United mexican states and Secretaria de Salud to start the entrada with Telcel. Messaging partners in the country will include Airmovil, Auronix, Aldeamo and Tiaxawith.

The characteristic will exist rolled out to more regions in the coming months, with 43 carriers and device manufacturers from around the globe said to be working on RCS as we speak. Betwixt them, they have about 1.8 billion customers and subscribers worldwide.

Co-ordinate to Google, OEMs that accept agreed to pre-load Android Letters on their devices include TCL/Alcatel/Blackberry, Transsion, BLU, Positivo, Multilaser, Mobiwire, Azumi and Essential. The company likewise doesn't look any problems on the inter-operability forepart, saying that, "all carriers are committed to interconnecting through the Jibe RCS Hub to bring RCS messaging to users across networks".

"Over the by year, carriers across Europe, North America and Latin America including America Movil, AT&T in Mexico, Celcom Axiata Berhad, Freedom Mobile, Oi, Telia Visitor and Telefonica joined Deutsche Telekom, World Telecom, Orange, Rogers Communications, Sprint and Telenor Group in their commitment to launch RCS messaging, powered by the Jibe RCS cloud from Google".

While iPhone users continue to swear past iMessage, Android users have long stopped using the default messaging apps that come with their devices That'due south got a lot to do with the emergence of OTT messaging apps, such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and others that offer so much more functionality than SMS always did. However, even equally end-consumers have moved on from SMSes, businesses continue to communicate with their users via SMS, which is where Google's latest announcement assumes significance.

Source: https://beebom.com/businesses-can-now-send-rcs-messages-to-android-users-in-the-us/

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