What is apparent in Wiesen's comment is the lack of
universal carrier support — with a few noticeable absences (Verizon Wireless, anybody?).
Not exact matches
This smartphone includes the BlackBerry ® 6 OS with fast, rich browsing, integrated social feeds,
universal search and BlackBerry App World ™ with
carrier billing
support.
You would need to be on a
carrier that
supports RCS on its
universal profile to take advantage of RCS services though.
RCS replaces SMS as the protocol for messaging, as well as file transfers and a few other things, but the
carrier has to
support it (the same as they did for SMS - it wasn't
universal when it...
Many newer devices are
universal and
support all
carrier bands.
And will any major
carriers other than Sprint sign on to
support universal RCS?
With his help, Google has convinced several
carriers to
support the
Universal Profile standard to ensure that RCS messages are delivered to customers successfully.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS Revenue / Product Budget Initiative Delivery Executive Impact / Epic Execution Verizon Wearables $ 7M Quanta & LG Wear 2.0 Smart watches 3/23/17 Verizon's Android Wear 2.0 Lead Device Verizon Message + $ 10M Integrated Messaging Application 2/2/17 6.4 Release OTT Migration [MQTT] RCS Server $ 2.5 M
Universal Profile 1.0 - Rich Comms Suite 12/1/16 Proxy Server for Inter
Carrier Support Outside Lands Festival $ 15M...