We expect carriers in most markets to sign agreements with Google enabling them to manage and monetize RCS traffic on their network.
In some cases, the carriers may be slow to adopt RCS or choose to not be involved, for these carriers, Google can enable Google Guest Cloud (GGC) so that people can send peer to peer RCS and Sinch and our customers can send RBM messages to customers on those carriers. Google Guest Cloud is only available on Android devices and is not supported on Apple devices.
For more information on Sinch RCS, visit the RCS product page.
Watch the video below to learn how to start sending RCS messages with Sinch:
After registering your sender agent with Sinch, the video tutorial guides you through the set up process on the Sinch Dashboard.
You can learn how to send different types of RCS messages from the developer perspective and review what that looks like in real-time when it comes to what your customer will be seeing on their handset.
To learn more you can read our comprehensive developer documentation for RCS, which shows you how to build your business' RCS experience.