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From: Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: More about RCS.
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2025 13:42:51 -0000 (UTC)
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Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> wrote:
> Carlos E.R., 2025-01-04 02:55:
> 
>> On 2025-01-03 23:22, Arno Welzel wrote:
> [...
>>> Messengers on the other hand are mostly proprietary non-federated
>>> services like WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Threema etc. which use servers
>>> of the respective provider (like Meta in the case of WhatsApp) and they
>>> send messages using these servers. You also can not send message from
>>> WhatsApp to Signal or Threema. If you have friends using Threema you
>>> either also need a Threema account or you have to convince your friends
>>> to join the messenger service you use yourself.
>> 
>> Whereas SMS is guaranteed to exist on any (mobile) phone.
> 
> Yes - but it is not guaranteed any longer to be delivered. 

It never was. It was developed as a neat trick to use up spare capacity in
the network protocols. 

If there's high demand an SMS may not get delivered or take a long time to
be received. 

> At least in
> Germany I experienced it more than once that SMS from one provider to
> another did not get delivered to the recipient. Since providers don't
> earn extra money for SMS any longer, they tend not to care about
> interoperability any longer.

Providers haven't made money from SMS for a long time. It's been bundled as
"unlimited" in pretty much all types of contracts.