Monday 2 October, 2017 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest

Jill Cooper Director of Marketing Future Networks Programme GSMA The Future Networks programme has launched a new initiative called the GSMA A2P Future Messaging Lab that is designed to bring leading stakeholders in the messaging industry such as mobile operators, ...

Tuesday 19 September, 2017 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest

SPRINT AND ROGERS USE GSMA UNVERSAL PROFILE TO DELIVER FAST RCS INTERCONNECTION   Earlier this summer, Sprint Corporation in the U.S and Rogers Communications in Canada became amongst the first operators in the world to provide interconnected advanced messaging services ...

Tuesday 12 September, 2017 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest

Did you miss the GSMA and OpenMarket RCS Webinar? Access the webinar recording online and catch up on what you missed. We’ll bring you up to speed on the technical developments, consumer preferences and brand interest in RCS.   Rich Communication Services (RCS) is ...

Tuesday 5 September, 2017 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest

  The GSMA was pleased to learn that Canada’s largest communications company, Bell, has now launched an integrated advanced messaging service this week. This will mean that Bell subscribers will benefit from enhanced messaging features such as group chat, high-res photo ...

Wednesday 19 July, 2017 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest

The GSMA’s Future Networks programme has announced the availability of the second version of its Universal Profile for Advanced RCS Messaging (UP). UP 2.0 builds on the first technical specification released last year by introducing key enablers for Messaging-as-a-Platform ...

Wednesday 19 July, 2017 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest

The Future Networks programme held a seminar at MWC Shanghai 2017 recently titled A New Global Platform for Conversations, Chatbots and Commerce with guest speakers from 3Cinteractive, Deutsche Telekom, Google, Huawei, Samsung and ZTE. The session covered each organisation’s ...

Friday 16 June, 2017 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest

India’s Reliance Jio has announced that it has the largest and fastest growing Advanced Communications (VoLTE and RCS) community in the world. The operator reached an incredible 100 million subscribers in record time – faster than many OTT messaging services. Jio’s ...

Friday 2 June, 2017 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest

David O’Byrne, IP Communications Project Director, GSMA Mobile technology is fundamentally transforming how brands interact with customers. One of the most important innovations underway is the transition from business SMS to Messaging as a Platform (MaaP) – a ...

Thursday 27 April, 2017 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest

Open market devices account for more than 60% of shipments globally and without a centralised device configuration process, OPEX and CAPEX costs for Operators and OEMs are increasing.  Operators are often unable to configure open market devices to work on their respective ...

Wednesday 5 April, 2017 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest

The new Samsung Galaxy S8 smartphone will include in-built Rich Communications Services (RCS) capabilities based on the GSMA Universal Profile for Advanced Messaging out of the box, providing consumers with richer messaging experiences as well as access to features including ...

Tuesday 4 April, 2017 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest

The diversity of opportunities created by Rich Communications Services (RCS) and Universal Profile (UP) was demonstrated by Montreal-based Summit Tech at MWC 2017, which is creating chatbots for every situation from the virtual reality and drive-through retail to the ...