The humble SMS might make a comeback and should not be considered to be dead entirely as the four major carriers--at&t, sprint T-mobile and Verizon have partnered together to enable messaging based on RCS ecosystem.
RCS stands for rich communication service and its used mobile data or wifi to receive SMS.
in other words, with rcs the humble SMS app can actually become a mighty rival for the likes of Whatsapp.
while the entire plan to introduce RTS- based texting has been botched up for quite some time in us and google has been pushing hard nothing significant has been done yet.
However, the first step to RCS has been taken now with AT&T sprint, T mobile and Verizon creating a joint venture the cross-carrier messaging initiative (ccmi) -to deliver the next generation of messaging. the ccmi promises to introduce RCS based messaging next year for Android devices.
Whatsapps parent facebook doesn't have a good reputation when it comes to user privacy and it will not take much time to make Whatsapp users make the switch if something similar is provided in the form of native SMS based on RCS.
RCS enables people to send messages with up to 8000 characters instead of the 160 characters limit users see read receipts and will also get to know when the other person is typing. photo and video can be exchanged over the RCS chat app.
it enables a user to create group chats of up to 100 people.
RCS text service works over wifi and mobile data but to get this, all carriers must come together to make a come RCS chat app.
in us , this is happening but in India, there is no word on it.
meanwhile, there is no word as to whether this will offer end-to-end
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