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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2024 10:21:32 +0100
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On 22.7.24 7:16 am, Andy Burns wrote:
> Steve Hayes wrote:
> 
>> Are you talking about that, or something else -- messages over the
>> Internet, like WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram and others?
> 
> Yes, that's how RCS works (either in Google Messages or Samsung Messages
> and soon on Apple) but without needing an additional account, it uses
> your phone number as ID, has fallback to SMS if your correspondent isn't
> reachable by RCS.

If a message is sent with, say, a photo attached/included, does it 
trigger an extra cash charge from the average service provider like an 
MMS message? I haven't really seen a definitive answer on the topic, so 
I assumed it would do so and changed my message program from Google 
Messages to Spamhound, which only does SMS. I use Whatsapp over WiFi for 
anything fancy, so the old age pension stretches a bit further.

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