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RCS: A Formidable New Entrant to the Market for B2C Campaigns
Friday 17 November, 2017 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest
Rich Communication Services are now a commercial reality. RCS constitutes a revolution in text-based messaging – an upgrade to SMS on a global scale.
Telstra Lanches Australia’s First RCS Service
Friday 10 November, 2017 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest
The GSMA was pleased to see that Telstra has become the first mobile operator in Australia to launch commercial Rich Communication Services (RCS) across the country this week. They join other global mobile operators including Bell, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telenor, Sprint, ...
GSMA RCS Accreditation Process Gives Market Reassurance
Tuesday 7 November, 2017 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest
The GSMA is working with mobile operators, hosted solution providers and RCS Clients on an accreditation process that aims to ensure RCS services are implemented in accordance with the GSMA Universal Profile 1.0 for Advanced Messaging (UP). The process is designed to ensure ...
GSMA STUDY: 5G TO ACCOUNT FOR A THIRD OF EUROPE’S MOBILE MARKET BY 2025
Tuesday 17 October, 2017 | 5G Digest | Digest | Latest News | Press Release | Press Releases
GSMA Calls For Fresh Regulatory Approach to Deliver Europe’s Gigabit Society Brussels: More than 30 per cent of Europe’s mobile connections will be running on 5G networks by 2025, according to a new GSMA study. The 2017 Europe edition of the GSMA’s Mobile Economy series, ...
Mobile 360 Bogotá: Future Networks and RCS
Friday 13 October, 2017 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest
Future Networks will be present at the GSMA M360 Latin America event in Bogotá, Colombia from 31st October to 2nd November to showcase the momentum of Rich Communications Services (RCS) and Messaging as a Platform (MaaP). Excitement about the person-to-person and ...
MIDDLE EAST MOBILE OPERATORS WILL BE 5G EARLY ADOPTERS, ACCORDING TO NEW GSMA REPORT
Monday 9 October, 2017 | 5G Digest | Digest | Latest News | Press Release | Press Releases
Adoption of Mobile Across Diverse Region Driving Innovative New Services, Generating Employment and Connecting the Unconnected Dubai: The GSMA today published a new report, titled The Mobile Economy: Middle East and North Africa 2017, highlighting that operators in the ...
GSMA Issues New Report on 5G Slicing
Monday 9 October, 2017 | 5G Digest | Digest | Latest News
The GSMA has issued a new report titled ‘Smart 5G networks: enabled by network slicing and tailored to customers’ needs’ outlining how businesses can benefit from the ability of mobile operators to ‘slice’ their 5G networks to cater to specific requirements. New 5G networks ...
5G and Network Slicing: Future Networks at MWCA17
Wednesday 4 October, 2017 | 5G Digest | Digest | Latest News
Network Slicing Increasingly Central to 5G Vision September 2017 Click here to download the slides from this seminar. Network slicing is likely to prove the single most important step towards making 5G a commercial success. As we look ahead to the realisation ...
Messaging as a Platform: Future Networks at MWCA17
Monday 2 October, 2017 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest
Messaging as a Platform: The Future of Brand Communications September 2017 Click here to download the slides from this seminar. The Future Networks programme held a seminar titled Messaging as a Platform: The Future of Brand Communications at the inaugural MWC ...
Future Networks Programme – GSMA A2P Future Messaging Lab
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, ...
Sprint and Rogers Use GSMA Universal Profile to Deliver Fast RCS Interconnection
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 ...
RCS Webinar: The Next Evolution of Mobile Engagement
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 ...
GLOBAL BRANDS EMBRACE RCS MESSAGING BASED ON THE GSMA UNIVERSAL PROFILE
Tuesday 12 September, 2017 | Digest | Latest News | Press Release | Press Releases | RCS Digest
Multiple Global Brands Including 1-800 CONTACTS, BMW Seattle, ReplyBuy and Detroit Pistons, MGM Resorts, Multiplus, Subway and Walgreens Showcasing RCS Business Messaging Services; RCS Gaining Momentum With Over 50 Operator Launches Worldwide San Francisco: The GSMA today ...
Bell Canada Launches Advanced Messaging Service
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 ...
Zain, Ooredoo and VIVA become First to Launch VoLTE Interconnection in Kuwait
Monday 21 August, 2017 | Digest | Latest News | Volte Digest
Zain, Ooredoo and VIVA have become the first mobile operators in Kuwait and in the Middle East and North Africa region to commercially launch a Voice Over LTE (VoLTE) interconnection. The service which is available now between all three networks will offer subscribers with ...
The GSMA announces availability of Universal Profile Version 2.0 for Advanced RCS Messaging
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 ...
Future Networks at MWC Shanghai 2017: A New Global Platform for Conversations, Chatbots and Commerce
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 ...
Network Slicing Key for Industry-Specific 5G Services
Wednesday 12 July, 2017 | 5G Digest | Digest | Latest News
Following the five-fold increase in 4G penetration in China over the last two years, similarly rapid take-up is projected for its successor, making China the world’s largest 5G market by 2025. For this reason, delegates gathered last week at the GSMA’s Future Networks ...
Future Networks at MWC Shanghai 2017: RCS and 5G Central to Realising Next Generation Services in Asia
Wednesday 12 July, 2017 | 5G Digest | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest
Aiming to develop and deploy next generation mobile networks and advanced communications across Asia, the GSMA’s Future Networks programme hosted a series of industry seminars, roundtables and interactive demonstrations at this year’s Mobile World Congress Shanghai – ...
Trends and Analysis: China on the march
Wednesday 21 June, 2017 | Digest | Latest News | RCS Digest | Volte Digest
By Henry Calvert Head of Future Networks Programme GSMA Ahead of Mobile World Congress Shanghai 2017 I thought it would be pertinent to focus this month’s trends and analysis update on the Chinese market and examine the development and adoption of IP based communications and ...