Metropcs Intros First Rich Communication Services On Lte,

October 31, 2012

Previously called Rich Communication Suite, the [b]Rich Communication Services[/b] (RCS) programme is a global initiative to deploy inter-operator RCS services. Leadership teams and working parties comprise key players from operators across the industry.

For consumers, it will deliver an experience beyond voice and SMS by providing them with instant messaging or chat, live video sharing and file transfer across any device, on any network, with anyone in their mobile address book.

[b]Main features of RCS are:[/b]
[b]Enhanced Phonebook[/b] with service capabilities and presence enhanced contacts information
[b]Enhanced Messaging[/b] enables a large variety of messaging options including chat and messaging history
[b]Enriched Call[/b] enables multimedia content sharing during a voice call. For many years, Nokia and Ericsson have been pushing a "see what I see" capability, but this has failed to be taken up by operators, or the way it was deployed failed to result in great take-up by consumers. Bundling this feature with the two other features may help to increase uptake.
RCS is a service upgrade that marks the transition of messaging and voice capabilities from Circuit Switched technology to an all-IP world. RCS and Voice over Long Term Evolution ([url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VoLTE"]VoLTE[/url]) share the same [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_Multimedia_Subsystem"]IP Multimedia Subsystem[/url] (IMS) investment and leverage the same IMS capabilities. Wider and large scale IMS deployment, interoperability between different terminal vendor RCS clients and RCS service interworking between operators are the key aims of the RCS Initiative

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