T-Mobile, Verizon, AT&T give up on their RCS partnership, as they should
(Android Central)

U.S. carriers are apparently still committed to RCS. What you need to know U.S. carriers have reportedly ended their joint CCMI. The initiative was supposed to result in the launch of a cross-carrier RCS app. T-Mobile has arguably been the largest proponent of Google`s RCS efforts. RCS isn`t dead, but the joint effort to make it more widespread in the U.S. has reportedly been killed off. According to a report from Light Reading, the Cross Carrier Messaging Initiative (CCMI) is no more after failing to produce anything meaningful in the past year. CCMI was the joint effort by T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T to get RCS off the ground with a messaging app that would work seamlessly between the different networks. The initiative was formed in what seemed like opposition to Google`s efforts to push RCS on Android with one of the best text messaging apps. The carriers planned to produce something in 2020, but as we can see, it never materialized. The folks over at Light Reading spok...