Monday 15 October, 2018 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest

Much attention has rightly been paid lately to how Rich Communication Services, or RCS, will transform the ways business can communicate with its customers: how brands can keep consumers updated on developments, and market what they have to offer, in ever more memorable and ...

Thursday 11 October, 2018 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest

RCS takes centre stage at in Los Angeles as momentum builds behind business applications At 25 years old and still going strong, SMS is the world’s most successful messaging platform, used today by more than 5 billion people worldwide.  As with any longstanding technology, ...

Monday 24 September, 2018 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest

Samsung and Google announced last week that they are collaborating to ensure that the Android Messages and Samsung Messages RCS clients will work seamlessly with both the Google Business Messages Platform and Samsung’s Messaging as a Platform (MaaP). The collaboration ...

Tuesday 4 September, 2018 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest

The Future Network Programme is hosting a number of events at this year’s Mobile World Congress Americas 2018 in Los Angeles covering the latest developments in Rich Communications Services. RCS and particularly RCS Business Messaging, which is helping brands to enhance ...

Tuesday 7 August, 2018 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest

The now rapid worldwide adoption of RCS and deployment of marketing campaigns by brands of Rich Communication Services (RCS) heralds the arrival of a new era in messaging.  SMS remains the largest messaging platform on earth, with over 4 billion users, and continues to play ...

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 ...