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Re:A bug in Samsung’s default texting app is sending random ... by exikyut on Monday July 02, 2018 @10:36PM (#17447048)
This is the first time I'm hearing about RCS at all. I know SMS is ancient, but I had no idea it had been superceded like this. (Probably because I've never had a smartphone - they're a bit beyond my budget.)

I (very vaguely) know that SMS works on top of SS7. I just checked out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services, which was interesting but doesn't have that many technical details.

I'm very curious to understand how RCS works technically. I get the impression it can work over IP as well as carrier-integrated data transfer?

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Re:A bug in Samsung’s default texting app is sending random ... by foobaw on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @01:30AM (#17447784)
GSM's official specification document is what we used when we implemented everything. "Advanced Messaging" and "IP-based messaging" were some other ways we referenced the feature like you said. Carriers definitely have to support this themselves and set transfer limits, provide the web-view, etc...
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Re:A bug in Samsung’s default texting app is sending random ... by bambamboom on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @08:40AM (#17449643)
What do you do? There are (were) wonderfully fast windows phones for for $20
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Re:A bug in Samsung’s default texting app is sending random ... by exikyut on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @07:51AM (#17456679)
Appreciate it hugely. It's actually the data costs that are prohibitive - I've only just started looking around, but my first quote is $39 for 2GB and 500 free minutes ($1/min after that) from Telstra, Australia's juggernaut.

I did recently think I critically needed to stay in touch (this is why I have the numbers above), but that requirement seems to have settled a little, which is why I'm less motivated to get on the merry-go-round of plan-hunting now. Chances are prepaid is probably what I'll end up doing ("yeah this is my number this week", here we come, lol).

What I _really_ want is an IoT/M2M contract, but I have no idea how to look for those :D

Oh - as for what I do, currently working on kickstarting that :) this sums up the difficulty FWIW: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15004608#15005811 (I'm working on it, it's fine)

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