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RCS messaging expands to more iPhone users in the US (www.neowin.net)
submitted 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Here's the list of US carriers that now support RCS messaging on iPhones:

  • AT&T
  • C Spire
  • Consumer Cellular
  • Cricket
  • FirstNet
  • H20 Wireless
  • Metro by T-Mobile
  • PureTalk
  • Red Pocket
  • Spectrum
  • T-Mobile
  • TracFone / Straight Talk
  • US Cellular
  • Verizon
  • Visible
  • Xfinity Mobile
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

Fuck RCS, it's too little, twenty years too late.

Why would I want to use a "new" messaging service that's ass-backwards by being hardware/device bound? It's completely antithetical to design concepts from 30+ years ago?

XMPP provided more, 20 years ago.

[–] TonyOstrich 21 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

And yet on Android Google hasn't opened an API for any other app to use RCS, so users are forced to use the Google Messages app. It's really irritating the hypocrisy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Came to say this. It's fucked up.

And as a grapheme user, I can't even use the Google Messages app for RCS. Which is even more crazy. It's truly: give us complete control or else

[–] TonyOstrich 1 points 10 hours ago

You frustration is born of a similar issue to mine. I'm running stock Android but rooted and I have to use two Magisk modules to obtain the ability to use RCS. However about once a month Google does something to break the ability to use RCS and I have to disable it for a day or two while the maintainers figure out a way around it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Still unsupported in Australia, unfortunately (｡╯︵╰｡)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

All this and I still have 2 regular group chats with android friends who’s phones are not using RCS. I went from feeling bad I have an iPhone to being annoyed their androids are not using RCS.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Google voice does not support RCS. Typical Google bullshit

Sent from my Pixel™

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

What is google voice?

A fellow pixel owner

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Basically an early version of Wi-Fi calling before Wi-Fi calling was a thing. You signed up for a SIM-free phone number tied to your Google account that allowed you to make calls as long as you had Internet. Calls between US numbers were totally free, even if the Google voice person was in a different country

Anyway, Google voice is still around and has an app. So if you have a Google voice number, you have a totally separate dialer and text message set up, that's distinct from the one for your regular number. But, as I mentioned, the text message part still doesn't support RCS. Pretty embarrassing for Google