SMS and RCS are communication protocols. While SMS relies on simplicity and ubiquity, RCS offers major feature upgrades in every other area. SMS is limited to short and plain texts, while RCS lets you ...

Few other communication tools have as much reach as SMS. While we might only sporadically check emails and instant messages from our WhatsApp groups and other channels, the simplicity and universal ...

In a surprise move, technology giant Apple says 2024 will see it adopt the RCS messaging standard that aims to eventually replace SMS, allowing for improved messaging between smartphones running ...

"Business messaging is expected to evolve faster than ever in 2026. To stay competitive, enterprises are deploying richer ...

There’s strength in numbers. That’s something to keep in mind when considering how to safeguard the messaging channels that consumers overwhelmingly prefer to interact with retailers, banks, airlines, ...

After years of resistance, Apple will be adopting the RCS (Rich Communication Services) standard on iOS later this year, according to multiple media reports. The move will bring better text messaging ...

RCS vs. SMS is the talk of the town now, as Verizon is upgrading on Google's new form of messaging, leaving behind the "short message service" in the past. However, despite the better features it has ...

Rich Communications Services (RCS) is like SMS on steroids and offers an excellent retail media channel – if you know how to ...

Apple is planning to add support for RCS 3 in iOS 26, a move that could improve messaging capabilities between iPhones and ...

OS 26.3 beta code hints at the arrival of end-to-end encryption for RCS. Discover how Apple is adopting the GSMA 3.0 standard ...

The new Beeper Mini app brings native iMessage support to Android devices but without any support for SMS, RCS, WhatsApp, and the many other chat apps supported by the original Beeper app. Here’s the ...

There is already some suggestion that Apple's plan for RCS encryption involves adopting a future standard, not Google's current implementation, further delaying the day RCS interoperability meets a ...