BY Nathan Wasson
Last December, we reported that Google had completed its rollout of Rich Communication Services (RCS) for the Message app in the U.S. Google had been pushing RCS as a replacement for SMS and MMS, and was able to convince AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, and fifty-three other carriers to support RCS. With the U.S. infrastructure in place, Google implemented RCS support in its Messages app for Android. Sadly, RCS is not end-to-end encrypted (E2EE), but Google is working to change that.
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