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Thursday 12 July, 2018 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest

The GSMA’s Future Networks Programme hosted a seminar at Mobile World Congress Shanghai 2018 titled ‘RCS Business Messaging: The Future of Brand Communications’ that saw a number of brands, aggregators and mobile operators come together to discuss the challenges, ...

Tuesday 19 June, 2018 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest

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 across the globe ...

Thursday 24 May, 2018 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest

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.

Tuesday 15 May, 2018 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest

  Last week we were excited to announce in our latest Press Release 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 ...

Tuesday 24 April, 2018 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest

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 ...

Monday 19 March, 2018 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest

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 ...

Monday 19 March, 2018 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest

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 ...

Tuesday 27 February, 2018 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest

Digital technologies are undergoing a seismic transformation. Many aspects of everyday life are now affected by digital technology; from accessing services to the way we communicate with our colleagues and friends, human behaviour has changed dramatically over recent years.

Tuesday 27 February, 2018 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest

We recently teamed up with mobile messaging provider OpenMarket on a piece of research to find out what consumers really think about RCS and the opportunities it presents to interact with brands in a more compelling way. An staggering 79% of consumers find RCS appealing. ...

Monday 8 January, 2018 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest

With the rapid growth of chatbots and artificial intelligence (AI), one of the biggest challenges facing mobile operators is how to shape the business models for these new IP-based messaging services. As business communications evolve from one-off messages to chat sessions, ...

Wednesday 20 December, 2017 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest

Rich Communication Services (RCS) is now poised to become the dominant mode of text-based telemarketing over the next five years. Bringing together the capabilities of traditional SMS and over-the-top (OTT) messaging apps – and providing them to consumers from within their ...