After testing group end-to-end encryption, Google Messages has now fully rolled it out and is enabling RCS by default too...
  • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    1 年前

    I didn’t know you could even get a phone subscription without unlimited calls, sms, and mms anymore.

    After a bit of looking I couldn’t find any subscription without it.

    • Pxtl@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      1 年前

      I actually have a dirt cheap $15/mo Public Mobile Canada plan that has 250MB data and 100 minutes… and even that has unlimited SMS.

        • Pxtl@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          1 年前

          It’s literally the cheapest plan I can find anywhere that includes any data. I can get $8/mo for unlimited talk and text but zero data.

    • voxel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      1 年前

      well I’m in ukraine, don’t know anything about us.
      yeah, all plans have unlimited calls (within the same carrier) but not sms (which usually cost around 2 cents/message) here
      sms is basically dead anyway… (it’s basically just a confirmation code delivery system)

      • LaughingFox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 年前

        That’s so strange! Here in the US lots of people still use sms, and it’s free/included unlimited in all the plans. I have heard previously other countries like in Asia and stuff, don’t really use sms either though, so that’s interesting to me…

        • blackn1ght@feddit.ukEnglish
          11·
          1 年前

          SMS has been free in the UK for a long time but nobody uses it, I think WhatsApp killed it around 2010ish. I think the main drivers for people switching to WhatsApp from SMS were:

          • Works with WiFi when you have no network signal. A lot of times, especially back then, phone signal would be almost non existent inside larger buildings, especially older buildings where the walls are like 1metre thick.
          • Way way faster and more responsive, you can see when it’s sent, received and read
          • Can send pictures and messages! You could do it via MMS but that was (and is today) expensive (it’s like £0.50 per message according to my contract). Plus MMS was slow, sometimes messages wouldn’t send, or they’d get sent to an email inbox provided by the phone network, and/or they’d arrive days later.
          • Group chats

          It’s also interesting that the top comment here mentions wanting SMS fallback. For me it would bug the hell out of me if it did fallback, I’d rather the message just not send.