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Protecting Enterprise SMS Communications in The Netherlands: iBASIS supports COIN’s Secure Messaging Registry

RCS features are constantly being expanded and updated. This blog article provides an overview of the latest features, including supported media formats, automated options, and more.
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2025 RCS Features – What’s New and Why it Matters

RCS features are constantly being expanded and updated. This blog article provides an overview of the latest features, including supported media formats, automated options, and more.
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Safeguarding Enterprise Messaging: iBASIS Supports ComReg’s SMS Sender ID Protection Registry in Ireland

In 2025, 2.7 trillion SMS messages are forecast to be sent globally. Across industries, organizations such as banks, hospitals, pharmacies, GP practices, delivery companies, schools, and clubs rely on Application-to-Person (A2P) SMS to communicate with customers, clients, and members.
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Push Notifications vs SMS: Which Channel Is Right for Your Business?

Push notifications and SMS are two of the most widely used channels for customer communication. But which one is more effective for your business needs? This article offers a balanced comparison of both technologies - looking at reach, engagement, reliability, and common use cases - to help you decide when SMS might be the smarter choice.
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AI and SMS Marketing

AI offers new opportunities for SMS marketing through content generation, personalization at scale as well as data analyzation and automation.
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SMS & RCS Abandoned Cart Campaigns to Bring Back Customers

As more than two thirds of shoppers abandon online carts, there is lots of potential for campaigns targeting those users. Our article explains how RCS & SMS campaigns for abandoned carts work and offers templates.
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RCS Compared to Other Messaging Services

A detailed comparison of RCS vs Whatsapp as well as vs Signal, Viber and Telegram. We give an overview of the features and what you have to consider for private and business use.
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SMS Appointment Reminders to Streamline Your Business Operations

SMS appointment reminders help businesses to reduce no-show rates and improve customer satisfaction. We discuss what they should include, how they work and how reminders can be set up with RCS as well.
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RCS in Germany: Recent Statistics and Forecasts

RCS coverage in Germany has vastly increased in recent years - we provide an overview of the current statistics and forecasts with data from our partner Mobilesquared.
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Does Apple Enable RCS? A Quick Overview of Apple’s Adoption of RCS

RCS is finally also available for Apple - we provide an overview of how to enable it in iOS (and reasons why it might not yet be available in certain markets) and its advantages for businesses.
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Three Types of RCS Messages, Explained

There are three types of RCS messages: basic, single and conversational messages. The article explains the features of each type and the most important use cases.
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Automatic SMS dispatch and automatic RCS dispatch

Notifications and marketing campaigns benefit from automated SMS dispatch thanks to simple advance planning and traceability. Integration via APIs is usually easy. Automated RCS dispatch is an alternative.
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On which devices can I use RCS?

RCS Business Messaging has been available for iPhones since 2024. We explain the availability of RCS on Android and iPhones, how to activate it, and the benefits of the new communication standard.
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What is RCS? What you need to know about RCS messages

RCS is a new communication protocol. The article explains the advantages of RCS messages, why they are also referred to as RCS chats, and what security features are available.
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RCS for companies: What are the advantages?

RCS offers many advantages for companies thanks to its chat function, multimedia content and native availability. Compared to SMS, it is not only more appealing, but also more secure thanks to end-to-end encryption.
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RCS vs. SMS: What are the differences?

A comparison of how RCS and SMS work - the article provides an overview of the features of RCS, such as multimedia content, security features and much more, and shows the use cases for where RCS will replace SMS.
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How secure is RCS?

The security features for RCS and RBM explained simply - the article looks at where and how end-to-end encryption is available and what further efforts are being made to improve it.
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