Licensing
A new universal consumer facing service mark has been designed for RCS-e. The purpose of the service mark is to allow a shared universal approach to visually expressing the availability of RCS-e compliant services on an international basis, across many touch points. It indicates to a user that a device, stand-alone app or operator service offering is compliant with the RCS-e specification and has met the respective test criteria.
The GSMA is undertaking this to serve an urgent market need to enable standardised RCS-e compliant services to be brought to market across the whole industry. This consistent approach will mean a high level of assurance of service delivery for users – delivering the ‘It’s just there, it just works’ philosophy inherent as part of the proposition to customers.
For more information about the logo and how to become a licensee, please download the following documents:
RCS IOT 002 Guidelines for Licensing Framework
joyn License Agreement
Annex A RCS Digiguide
Annex B RCS Brand Communication Guidelines
Annex C RCS Service Mark Minimum Requirements
FAQ
The current technical specification for RCS-e and test cases can be found here. This specification (V 1.2.1) was approved on the 16th December 2011 and the deadline for retesting mandatory requirements is the 16th June 2012.
If your organization would like to use the special RCS Service Mark, please review the documents, then download and sign the joyn license agreement and return email us . Once the License Agreement has been signed, access to the IOT information and artwork will be provided. However, we do also request that hardcopy originals of the license agreement are also returned.
NB: You need to be a member of the GSMA or have signed a non-member participation agreement (valid only for 3 months) to access the IOT and accreditation information details in the Infocentre. For more details please visit Membership.
For information on the self-accreditation process procedures please visit Accreditation.
For information on the Test fest events which are deemed to be a pre-accreditation step please visit Testfest.
If you have any questions, please contact us.
