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Android Fans Just Got a Texting Upgrade. T-Mobile and Google Join Forces to Expand Rich Messaging (RCS)
What’s the news: T-Mobile customers with Android smartphones have enjoyed an upgraded and more engaging texting experience with RCS for years. Now, they’ll
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nWhat’s the news: T-Mobile customers with Android smartphones have enjoyed an upgraded and more engaging texting experience with RCS for years. Now, they’ll have RCS with capable Android users on other networks all across the globe too, thanks to a first-of-its-kind partnership between T-Mobile and Google.\n\n\nWhy it matters: Un-carrier customers send more than 700 million RCS messages a day, and in the last several weeks, messaging traffic on T-Mobile’s network was higher as people reached for their phones more than ever to stay connected.\n\n\nWho it’s for: The millions of Un-carrier Android customers … and anyone with a capable Android smartphone that they text.\n\n BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nT-Mobile is typing… Five years ago, Un-carrier customers were the first in the U.S. to enjoy enhanced texting capabilities with Rich Communications Services (RCS), so they could share high-res pics and videos, see when someone’s typing a response (and know when they’ve been left on ‘read’), and more. Since then, RCS has evolved to include advanced group message capabilities and other upgrades. Today, T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) and Google announced they’ve teamed up to expand RCS for T-Mobile and Metro by T-Mobile Android customers, so they now get that same upgraded RCS experience when texting with Android users on other networks across the globe.\n\n\nT-Mobile customers are relying on messaging more than ever right now to stay connected to friends and family. In the first several weeks of social distancing, high-res photo and video sharing with RCS doubled on T-Mobile’s network. To up-level all those texts for Android customers, T-Mobile has become the first in the world to implement a full standards-based RCS Universal Profile 1.0 interconnect with Google’s Messages service. That’s a fancy way of saying that T-Mobile Android customers with capable smartphones get RCS with Android users on other networks, too.\n\n\n“There’s never been a more important time to stay in touch with friends and family and enabling cross-network RCS messaging with Google is one way we can give T-Mobile customers a better experience to do just that,” said Abdul Saad, Chief Technology Officer at T-Mobile. “We were first in the U.S. to bring RCS messaging to customers in 2015 and will continue to innovate in this space. T-Mobile’s RCS customer base is am...