Tuesday 3 January, 2017 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest

Kobus Smit, Head of Voice & Messaging Products for Deutsche Telekom, explains how the rollout of consistent advanced messaging services will transform the mobile industry Mobile messaging is undergoing a global upgrade. Approximately 50 mobile operators around the world ...

Wednesday 14 December, 2016 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest

Rogers became the first mobile operator in Canada and the second in the world to launch Advanced Messaging services to its subscribers based on the GSMA’s Universal Profile. Through a partnership with Google, Rogers will offer enhanced messaging experiences and access to ...

Monday 12 December, 2016 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest

December 6th saw the launch of interconnected Advanced Communications in Slovakia. Following coordination and testing by the GSMA, SlovakTelecom and Orange Slovensko are the latest operators to press ahead with all-IP interconnection which, under the auspices of the GSMA’s ...

Friday 18 November, 2016 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest

We first announced that we were working to develop a Universal Profile for Advanced Messaging back in February at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Now, just 10 months later, we have published the first release of the Universal Profile for Advanced Messaging, which will ...

Friday 4 November, 2016 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest

Sprint Becomes First Operator to Launch Service with Google; GSMA’s Universal Profile Now Backed by 58 Global Operators and Manufacturers London: The GSMA welcomes today’s announcement by Google and mobile operator Sprint that Sprint has become first to partner with Google ...

Tuesday 25 October, 2016 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest

By Oisin Lunny In 2016 we live in a mobile-first world, populated by what The Economist termed a new species of “phono sapiens”. We are glued to our mobile devices most of the time, and use these portable super-computers for so many sophisticated and essential interactions ...

Thursday 6 October, 2016 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest

By Jill Cooper, Marketing Director, GSMA The GSMA’s Universal Profile for Advanced messaging gets launch date. The GSMA’s Network 2020 programme has been working closely with leading operators, OEMs and operating system providers on the development of its Universal ...

Wednesday 5 October, 2016 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest

Henry Calvert, Head of Network 2020 programme, GSMA   We are seeing real momentum in the global deployment and adoption of all-IP communications services by the mobile operator community such as Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE), Voice-over-Wi-Fi (VoWiFi) as well as the Universal ...

Wednesday 5 October, 2016 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest

By David O’Byrne, Project Director, GSMA The strategic importance of IP technology to enable advanced communications services for mobile operators Mobile communications have become essential to modern life.  Around the world, there are 6.7 billion mobile phones, connected to ...

Friday 30 September, 2016 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest

By Steve Costello  LIVE FROM GSMA MOBILE 360 LATIN AMERICA, MEXICO: Google’s Todd Parker talked up the evolution of RCS (Rich Communications Services) to capitalise on the mobile messaging boom, with several other execs highlighting the potential the technology offers. RCS ...