text message Archives - EDMTunes https://www.edmtunes.com/tag/text-message/ Mon, 28 Oct 2019 15:17:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint To Replace SMS With RCS https://www.edmtunes.com/2019/10/28/verizon-att-tmobile-sprint-rcs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=verizon-att-tmobile-sprint-rcs Mon, 28 Oct 2019 15:16:51 +0000 https://www.edmtunes.com/?p=256842 If you haven’t heard of RCS yet, here’s a quick rundown. As you may know, most phones currently use SMS (Short Message Service) to text. That means we’re bound by our cellular connection for messages to send successfully. It also means that we’re limited to 160 characters and lack the ability to send stickers like […]

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]]> If you haven’t heard of RCS yet, here’s a quick rundown. As you may know, most phones currently use SMS (Short Message Service) to text. That means we’re bound by our cellular connection for messages to send successfully. It also means that we’re limited to 160 characters and lack the ability to send stickers like other messaging apps.

RCS (Rich Communication Services) will be able to turn our regular texts into a system that resembles iMessage. It’ll support read receipts and provide the ability to attach high-resolution photos, GIFS, and videos. Additionally, it allows for a longer message and attachment of a larger file. It’s the more modern, up-to-date version of texting that we need among all this technological advancement.

Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint are all backing up RCS and intend to replace SMS with RCS in 2020. These four major cellular carriers have formed the Cross Carrier Messaging Initiative (CCMI), intending to push out RCS and change the standard. Having all four of these carriers on board will ideally allow for a seamless and smooth transition and user experience.

Although Apple has yet to make any statements regarding RCS, Google has been supporting it. They even rolled out RCS in the France and UK themselves through their own services. Therefore, with the support of these four cellular company giants, RCS has a bright future and the change may come even sooner. It’s time to say goodbye to SMS.

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]]> Your Texts May Actually Send At Festivals Thanks to AT&T https://www.edmtunes.com/2016/07/17/texts-may-actually-send-festivals-thanks-att/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=texts-may-actually-send-festivals-thanks-att Sun, 17 Jul 2016 19:20:09 +0000 http://www.edmtunes.com/?p=141052 We all know the ultimate struggle of music festivals and cell phones rarely having enough service to make calls or texts. It’s all too common and requires coordination of meet-up points, walkie talkies, or just the general acceptance that, once you lose your friends, you won’t find them again. Well, that could change sometime soon. […]

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]]> We all know the ultimate struggle of music festivals and cell phones rarely having enough service to make calls or texts. It’s all too common and requires coordination of meet-up points, walkie talkies, or just the general acceptance that, once you lose your friends, you won’t find them again.

Well, that could change sometime soon. Telecom company AT&T has proposed using drones to help boost reception, meaning AT&T users would be able to have functional cell phones at festivals again. The drones would hover over festivals, acting as temporary mobile cell towers to help create a stronger network by using AT&T’s 4G network.

Beyond music festivals, this usage of drones could also play an important role in emergency scenarios. Drones would be able to fly into an area where a cell tower has lost power, allowing residents to let their friends and family know that they are okay. They would also be able to evaluate the damaged tower in a way that humans are not and would move more quickly and efficiently. The company explained this more:

Connecting drones to our nationwide LTE network lets us capture data and feed it directly to our systems. In turn, this can allow us to make changes to our network in real time.

By using drones to inspect a cell site, we’re able to conduct inspections more quickly and safely – and even access parts of a tower that a human simply could not. We anticipate this will allow us to improve our customers’ experience by enhancing our cell sites faster than ever before.

Ideally, this new drone scenario would be a win-win for all of us at music festivals and otherwise; those who have AT&T will have the benefit of the drones, and the amount of network usage removed because of the drones will allow those without AT&T to have more service.

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