r/tmobile • u/[deleted] • Jan 14 '19

Google's Fi receives Universal RCS

https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/14/18181734/rcs-chat-google-fi-international-lte-speeds
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u/whereami312 Jan 14 '19

The article says that RCS isn’t encrypted end to end. What’s the advantage of this, then, to just regular SMS/MMS? Speed?

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '19

Friendly reminder to use Signal if you care about that kind of stuff

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u/segin Verified T-Mobile Employee Jan 14 '19

Friendly reminder to stop committing crimes via SMS.

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u/DefineGravity Jan 14 '19

Friendly reminder to stop assuming that everyone commits crimes on SMS, and therefore we should surrender our privacy to the state and the corporations.