Features
ZTE, China Mobile digitalize Panda Reserve for biodiversity conservation
ZTE and China Mobile have developed a 5G-based digital solution for the Giant Panda National Park in northwest China. Read more…
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Is the RCS story about to change, with a 5G boost from China?
The RCS story is about to change. The much joked about Rich Communications Service devised by the GSMA, got a much needed boost in the arm. Read more…
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Operators need a messaging marketplace to take on OTTs
RCS can help MNOs fight back against OTTs by enabling them to create not only a competitive messaging service, but a marketplace that drives real value. Operator messaging revenue is one of the biggest victims Read more…
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Will adding blockchain to RCS save telecoms? Or even RCS?
Telecoms operators have been desperately looking for cool ways to fight against the OTT players eroding their world. Their latest weapon of choice in that fight is … would you believe RCS? No? How about RCS Read more…
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SoftBank and parters demo blockchain-based RCS payments
SoftBank, Synchronoss Technologies and TBCASoft have partnered on a proof of concept (PoC) for a new cross-carrier mobile payments service based on the RCS global messaging standard and TBCASoft’s cross-carrier blockchain platform. Earlier this year, Read more…
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Samsung and Google make RCS messengers interoperable
Samsung Electronics and Google announced they are collaborating to make their messaging clients, Android Messages and Samsung Messages, work seamlessly with each company’s RCS technology, including cloud and business messaging platforms. To date, Google and Read more…
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Syniverse and Mavenir launch RCS business solution
Syniverse and Mavenir have partnered to deliver a global cloud-based Rich Communication Services (RCS) business messaging as-a-service solution that promises to simplify messaging reach for brands and fuel A2P revenue opportunities for mobile operators. RCS Read more…
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KDDI, DoCoMo and SoftBank finally use RCS to upgrade SMS
The GSMA announced that Japanese mobile operators KDDI, NTT DoCoMo and SoftBank have launched a new service based on the GSMA’s RCS specifications. The service – called ‘+ message’ – is an upgrade to SMS Read more…
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Huawei’s RCS play won’t hurt its margins, but it won’t help either
One has to give credit to Huawei for realizing that it has a differentiation problem in the smartphone space, but so far its attempts to drive its differentiation beyond the hardware itself are not bearing Read more…
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Sonus and Palo Alto create architecture to help LTE cellcos secure their IMS and EPC
Sonus Networks has announced a new architecture developed with Palo Alto Networks that is designed to mitigate the impacts of rogue LTE endpoint devices and erroneous IP traffic targeting Rich Communication Services (RCS) on LTE Read more…
Weekly Wrap
The Weekly Wrap 10, Feb 17, 2017: GSMA’s IoT Big Data API Directory; RCS is back!
Weekly Wrap 10 features John Tanner and Tony Poulos discussing the news highlights from the week that was. For the week ending February 17: A rash of 5G announcements this week but no final standard Read more…
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Telenor teams with Google to roll out RCS in Asia and Europe
(Reuters) – Google said on Thursday it partnered with Telenor to roll out Rich Communications Services (RCS), an upgraded messaging service, to the telecoms company’s subscribers in Asia and Europe. The messaging service – which supports Read more…
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RCS is still not dead: Sprint launches Google version of RCS messaging
The GSMA’s Rich Communications Services (RCS) platform was meant to be the de facto standard which made MNO-provided voice and messaging relevant in the age of Skype. However, years of trials resulted in only a Read more…