Rich Communication Services (RCS) is a communication protocol between mobile-telephone carriers and between phone and carrier, aiming at replacing SMS messages with a text-message system that is richer, provides phonebook polling (for service discovery), and can transmit in-call multimedia. It is part of the broader IP Multimedia Subsystem. It is also marketed as Advanced Messaging, Chat, joyn, SMSoIP, Message+, and SMS+. — Wikipedia
In China, the telecom operators call the RCS a 5G Chatbot. (See: Chinese operators make major RCS commitment: Whitepaper, April 9, 2020)
Source: What is RCS Messaging? Rich Communication Services and Chatbots
Internet Company
China Unicom
Source: 硬核桃社区发布会
Case Study
- RCS Messaging: Porsche Recruitment Chatbot from BOTfriends, GSMA Mobile World Congress 2019 (MWC19) in Barcelona, Oct 8, 2019
- Cbot RCS Chatbot Improves User Experience of Banking Clients, GSMA Mobile World Congress 2019 (MWC19) in Barcelona, Jun 25, 2019
Conclusion
What I’m thinking about is, if we build a Wechaty Puppet RCS, then our chatbot will be able to run both on the WeChat and the RCS without modify any code! Here’s the Wechaty Puppet RCS Wishlist: Enable RCS Support for Wechaty wechaty/wishlist#53
Credit
Teaser image credit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjQPH17AP6k