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[Day 2] Community festival: The long road from SMS to RCS
Love this post, Alex_Muc - thank you so much for the amount of time you put into this.
Haha, I laughed at your experience with your prepaid plan. I don't remember getting a free credit after ~30 SMS, but I remember the mass SMS send on New year's eve. 😁
This takes me back to when you had to multi-press the keys to get letters on your phone - trying to explain this to a child these days is quite funny! It's a bit like explaining what a cassette is. I suppose it's good to show we are moving forward. 🙂 Do you think this will be the same with SMS?
Massive thanks again for this Alex.
Lizzie
If children are aware of today's technology, they will certainly find the limitations and costs of SMS funny. 😄
A brief update due to news from this week:
This week there was news that US telecommunications companies such as AT&T, Verizon and Lumen were hacked by Salt Typhoon:
This shows once again that encrypted text messages are a must-have these days. With RCS, more modern messages are possible between Google Messages and iMessage, but encryption is not yet implemented in this case.
I hope that an end-to-end encryption standard will be defined for the RCS Universal Profile as soon as possible. The topic of cross-platform end-to-end encryption is currently planned for the next major milestone:
https://www.gsma.com/newsroom/article/rcs-nowin-ios-a-new-chapter-for-mobile-messaging/
