Disruptive Wireless
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Disruptive Wireless is a blog on telecom strategy, covering WebRTC, VoIP, Wi-Fi, net neutrality and mobile carriers' business models.
What HN saysHN commenters link it in discussions of telecom topics such as RCS and carrier messaging, where they criticize carriers' attempts to win back SMS revenue.
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- 15Rcs is still zombie technology 281 people · first shared 2020
What HN people wrote when they linked it
danyork · 2016-02-22
RCS is the legacy telcos ongoing attempt to try to somehow get into the messaging game that all of the Internet-based communications app are doing (WhatsApp, FB Messenger, Line, Kik, Skype, iMessage, etc.).
Basically, they'd like all their SMS revenue back!
Dean Bubley had a great analysis - "Google + GSMA announcement on RCS is no gamechanger" : http://disruptivewireless.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/google-gsma-announcem…
corty · 2020-11-23
RCS isn't "a standard", it is a dozen or so. Every carrier does it differently, so does Google, so does maybe Apple. The ecosystem will be fragmented along carrier lines and OSes. And the software is a Google (Android branded, but same difference) thing, so of course they can and will kill it at some point. I'm not posting FUD, I'm trying to point out that RCS is looking dead on arrival. Industry people even said so 5 years ago. All the signs are there. The horse they are riding is stillborn. https://disruptivewireless.blogspot.com/2015/05/rcs-is-still-zombie-te…