US Mobile Carriers Plan to Ditch SMS and Adopt RCS
For now, they plan to roll out RCS for Android.
American mobile carriers AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint issued a joint press release announcing the creation of a “joint venture” called the “Cross-Carrier Messaging Initiative” (CCMI). This was reported by The Verge.
CCMI is designed to replace SMS with the next-generation messaging standard — RCS. The carriers plan to launch a new messaging app for Android phones that will begin supporting this standard by next year.
The Android app will likely become the new default messaging app for phones sold by these carriers. It will support all the usual RCS features, such as typing indicators, higher-resolution attachments and improved group chat.
In Ukraine, at the beginning of last month, deputies from the Servant of the People party submitted a bill to the Verkhovna Rada, which could make SIM card registration by passport mandatory in Ukraine. The proposal was later withdrawn.
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