Universal messaging, carrier charges, lawful intercept: what's not to like?
23 Feb 2016 at 05:02, Richard Chirgwin Google has run into a privacy furore with its acquisition last September of carrier messaging company Jibe.
Jibe is a messaging platform based on the GSMA's Rich Communication Services (RCS) standard, which kicked off back in 2007 as the telco sector's answer to the looming threat of over-the-top (OTT) services.
That threat didn't just loom: it materialised in the form of Twitter, WhatsApp, Facebook and Skype, all of which taught the public that a phone with Wi-Fi or a good 4G data allowance no longer had to rely on carriers' voice and SMS for communications.
At the time, the acquisition didn't get much interest, but over at Mobile World Congress, Google – which, The Register notes, has not dented the OTT market like its competitors have – has joined hands with a bunch of carriers to apply the defibrillator to RCS.
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