Tag Archives: RCS-e
Guest Post: RCS-e is too little too late
by Thorsten Trapp ,CTO with tyntec
The GSMA’s RCS-e initiative is flawed. The standard, which is being tested by a number of operators, is designed to allow these organisations to offer OTT (Over-The-Top) services such as IM (instant messaging), chat and video sharing. Whilst this is an admirable goal, the initiative isn’t all-encompassing enough to satisfy consumer expectations and falls some way short of being able to compete with established OTT offerings. Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Messaging, Mobile Operators
Tagged GSMA, OTT, pinger, RCS-e, Thorsten Trapp, Tyntec, Viber, Whatsapp
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Synchronica gets in RCS via NewPace
Rating: Planning to offer RCS-e capability to operator clients
To date, there hasn’t really been much of a buzz around Rich Communications Service (RCS) – which is a GSMA driven standard that unifies different types of communication into a single service on a mobile handset. However, Synchronica has decided to cement an alliance with Canada’s NewPace Technology Development to cooperate in the development, sales and marketing of a Rich Communications Suite (RCS) product. No prizes for guessing that Synchronica is planning to offer RCS to its client base of over 100 mobile operators worldwide. GoMo News suggests that the company has spotted an opportunity which RCS can fill in developing countries without the need for high speed mobile internet. Continue reading
Mobile standards to be discussed in Lleida
The mobile industry’s Interconnect Working Group (IWG) will meet for the first time in Lleida on November 30th and December 1st 2011
The RCS-e suite and the Embedded Mobile are the main subjects that will be discussed
Press release
Lleida, November 29th 2011. Tomorrow Lleida will host for the first time amobile industry Interconnect Working Group meeting (IWG#15). This will involve more than 50 international organisations within the global mobile ecosystem meeting to discuss standards for the mobile communications industry. Continue reading
Will services like BBM be the death of SMS?
Rating: Apparently not because there’s something called RCS-e
There’s been a great deal of doom and gloom cast over the fast growth of instant messging (IM) services such as BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), Apple’s iMessage, MXit, WhatsApp, Facebook Chat and Skype. Some are predicting that these so-called OTT (Over The Top) messaging services will spell the end for SMS/text. One figure banded about is the fact that last month [October 2011], it was revealed that over one billion messages are now being sent in a single day via the popular WhatsApp app. These developments have to be put in context and one such commentator is Tom Veldman, director of product marketing with Acision. He argues that the imminent demise of SMS at the hands of OTT service is an over-exaggeration. Continue reading
