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Exploring Rich Communications Services in Asia at MWC Shanghai 2018

RCS, one of the mobile industry’s fundamental innovations of recent years, will be crucial in supporting the modernisation of commerce and services in Asia. With launches from China Mobile, KDDI, NTT DoCoMo and SoftBank Corp. earlier this year, 55 operators …Read more

5G’s Imminent Delivery to the Mass Market to be Outlined at MWC Shanghai 2018

Click here to pre-register your place at the 5G Network Slicing Summit at MWC Shanghai 2018.   5G is set to transform the role of telecommunications in everyday life. Its ultrafast mobile broadband will lead to digitisation of countless functions …Read more

GSMA Launch Network Economics Project to Help Usher in 5G Era

The 5G era promises to deliver incredible mobile broadband speeds to consumers and business alike, transforming society and ushering in a host of socio-economic benefits. It’s expected to be the panacea that will address a diverse array of requirements and use cases such as enhanced transportation, public services and healthcare.Read more

The GSMA Announces Availability of Universal Profile Version 2.2 for Rich Communications Services

The GSMA’s Future Networks Programme has published Version 2.2 of the Universal Profile (UP) for Rich Communications Services (RCS), alongside RCS 8.0 which delivers the UP’s technical underpinnings.Read more

Japan Turns on RCS Services

Last week we were excited to announce that all three of Japan’s mobile operators, KDDI Corporation, NTT DOCOMO, INC. and SoftBank Corp. had launched Rich Communications Services (RCS) based on our specifications across Japan. The service is called ‘+ message’ …Read more

GSMA Business Messaging Labs Continue to Grow the RCS Ecosystem

The Future Networks programme instigated an initiative called the GSMA RCS Business Messaging Labs last year that was designed to bring leading stakeholders in the messaging industry together such as mobile operators, aggregators and brands to discuss the operational and …Read more

5G is Arriving, and the World is Taking Note

As the technical and commercial understanding of 5G matures, the many vertical industries who partner regularly with mobile network operators – and the public at large – are increasingly engaging with this new network technology as something more than just …Read more

Brands Showcase Live RCS Business Messaging Campaigns to Consumers at MWC 2018

Momentum of RCS services was very much in evidence at Mobile World Congress 2018 with a number of announcements at the show. Over 50 networks have now launched, with a number of network interconnections in the Americas and Europe and a wave of brands launching trials of RCS Business Messaging services.Read more

RCS Driving Digital Transformation with Twenty Times the Conversion Rate Compared to SMS

One of the highlights of Mobile World Congress 2018 was a conference session titled ‘Digital Transformation for the Consumer 2.0’ that examined how brands are looking beyond transactions to ongoing, personal conversations with their consumers. The session was opened by Rimma Perelmuter, CEO and Global Board Director at Mobile Ecosystem Forum, who outlined the challenge many brands faced in dealing with numerous channels to communicate with their customers.Read more
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