Navigating the End of RCS Support on Samsung Messages: What It Means for Verizon Users
MEF Advisor and Programme Lead Matt Ekram comments on news that Samsung Messages will be ending its support for RCS next year – does this mean no more RCS for Samsung users, and what can they do to continue using these services? Recently, I received a message from Verizon notifying me that Samsung Messages will no longer support Rich Communication Services (RCS) after January 6, 2025.
Celebrating RCS Success: Highlights from RCS World 2023 in Paris
Michael Power, Future of Messaging Adviser for MEF, shares his highlights and takeaways from the recent RCS World event in Paris where MEF Members and guests gathered to take stock of RCS’ progress and success since the inaugural event in 2022.
Wow! RCS World, hosted by the Mobile Ecosystem Forum at the stunning Google Office in the heart of Paris, was truly an extraordinary event. With over 200 in-person attendees, it was a standing-room-only affair, complemented by an additional 600 viewers joining us online. This achievement stands as a remarkable testament to the progress we’ve made in just one year since the inaugural RCS World event in Dublin.
Does RCS need Apple?
Michael Power, Founder & CEO of Engage Mobile and Doug Makishima, CSMO of Summit Tech discuss the importance of interoperability across messaging platforms, and ask a fundamental question regarding RCS – does it need Apple to get on board in order to succeed..?
The short answer is No. Controversial? Great, well read on and see why we believe that, while interoperability and ubiquity are important, RCS does not necessarily need Apple to be successful.
MEF Webinar: RBM Hub – simplifying the RCS ecosystem
MEF Recently invited Dotgo, in collaboration with Google and Orange, to host an RBM webinar focusing on how their RBM Hub can help simplify the RCS ecosystem.
In this webinar, our guests discussed how Dotgo’s RBM Hub provides a single connection point to onboard/verify agents, send/receive RBM messages to/from any RCS enabled mobile user across the globe, and generate QR codes for P2A traffic.
Six reasons to integrate Rich Communication Services into your mobile marketing campaigns
Chief Innovation Officer at mobile marketing automation specialists Upstream Chrysa Karamanidi shares insights into why brands and enterprises should be excited for Rich communications Services (RCS), and how the protocol is set to shake up mobile marketing forever. Does your mobile marketing need an overhaul? Would you like an easy way to target and retarget customers, with huge reach and improved sales? Here’s everything you need to know about Rich Communication Services (RCS), a fast-growing messaging protocol that holds great potential for marketing with proven results and easy deployment.
RCS, Come On Down, The Commercial Model Is Right!
MEF Director of Programmes James Williams provides an overview of the recent MEF Webinar, where an all-star panel of experts dive into the current state of RCS and provide a comprehensive overview of what exactly it is, and what commercial models and services it will make possible. Asked what RCS is, many describe it as SMS 2.0. And whilst SMS might be ‘king of the Business Messaging hill’ today, RCS absolutely has the potential to be its worthy successor, king of the ‘Rich Business Messaging (RBM) hill’.
Open RCS – The industry calls for collaboration in messaging evolution
On the 29th of September 2020, 16 members of the Mobile Ecosystem Forum were revealed as the initial signatories of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for developing the RCS ecosystem in an open and interconnected way. The MOU is open to all ecosystem participants, with no limitation. The RCS ecosystem will replace texting messages with multimedia services for both person to person and business messaging. The OTT solutions have managed to gain great reach rapidly, but only SMS provides a universal communication service available to all users. RCS will require time to develop with the same reach of SMS, it needs the support from operators, device, and platform vendor and replacing the existing device base.
Interview: How India is powering ahead in CPaaS
More than 500m Indians own a smartphone. Is it any wonder the market is so advanced in terms of rich messaging? In this teaser for the MEF Connects Rich Communications virtual event, Rajdip Gupta, MD and Group CEO of Route Mobile, shares his experience… It took some organising to speak to Rajdip Gupta on video for this MEF Connects Rich Communications video. Why? Because Gupta has been preoccupied of late.
Interview: RCS – the pros, the cons, the rollout
Is RCS business messaging about to ‘pop’? Are MNOs and OEMs turning into true believers? Guillaume Le Mener, SVP of enterprise solutions at Mavenir, has a helicopter view of this exciting market. In this preview for MEF Connects Rich Communications virtual event, he shares what he’s seen…
RCS – coming to a VR headset near you?
The industry is rightly excited about RCS’s potential as a standard rich messaging platform for (nearly) all phones. But maybe that’s too limited. Can RCS also flourish on other device types? In this preview for MEF Connects Rich Communications, Doug Makishima, CSMO of Summit Tech, speculates…