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Apple announced RCS with a whimper when it should have been a bang (www.theverge.com)

submitted 5 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I'm very confused about your setup tbh. Can you get a data plan that doesn't come with a phone number for your phone? Is that what's going on?

I do believe I've heard that Google messages (and therefor RCS) doesn't support dual Sim, which is absolutely bullshit. It's currently the same as a closed standard with empty promises for being open.

[–] EurekaStockade@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Google Messages definitely supports dual SIM, I have a physical SIM and an eSIM in my device and you can choose which one it sends from on a message by message basis

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Ahh, sweet, my bad. Not sure where I heard that.

[–] evranch@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

It's complicated. The main issue is, I live on a remote farm without cell coverage, except in the tiny zone under my 50' tower with booster.

However I now have Starlink, and wired and wireless APs covering a large area with high speed, low latency data.

So, port my number to VoIP.ms, which supports SMS, and make all my calls/texts through Wifi using SIP. On the road, use a basic cell plan with unlimited slow data that is still fast enough for voice. Tested, working, so far fairly simple.

Now the issues. RCS won't work with my now VoIP provisioned number, because there's no SIM for it. The SIM in the phone has a different number, that of the new plan which will be unreachable at the farm by voice/SMS just like the old number used to be.

This would all be a non-issue if my provider supported VoWifi on anything other than iPhones, but sadly this is not an option. So I've got service everywhere now, but am stuck with voice and SMS, no RCS or MMS.