Redditor details how to enable RCS messaging on any carrier and device with Google Messages

RCS (Rich Communication Services) deployment over the last 3 years seems to have been progressing at a snails pace. Just recently, the big four US carriers announced the formation of the “Cross-Carrier Messaging Initiative” (CCMI) with the goal of bringing RCS to Android by 2020. Most frustratingly, there are plans for a new app and the carriers don’t seem to be collaborating with Google at all.

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Google is rolling out RCS without waiting for carriers to support it, starting in the UK and France

RCS has been considered to be the successor to SMS and possibly even a competitor to iMessage ever since Google had announced it. Google’s been working hard to widely roll it out, but carriers? Not so much. Now, Google is finally taking charge of the RCS rollout—sort of.

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“Chat” RCS protocol by Google could make Android Messages an iMessage competitor

Yesterday, Dieter Bohn of The Verge got an exclusive update on Google’s next big fix for Android’s messaging mess. That big fix being “Chat.” Google plans on launching “Chat,” the RCS-based iMessage alternative, in the near future; announcing it potentially on stage on May 8th at Google I/O.
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