Verizon Communications will make Google's Messages the default messaging app on all Android gadgets it sells beginning next yr, the U.S. Wireless provider stated on Tuesday.
With that pass, Verizon could join peers AT&T Inc and T-Mobile US Inc in propping up opposition to Apple Inc's iMessage service.
Alphabet Inc-owned Google's Messages comes with capabilities just like the ones in iMessage, the usage of Rich Communication Services (RCS) generation to update SMS-based totally texts.
Apple's iMessage is restricted to customers who use the employer's devices, and the iPhone maker has now not yet indicated any plans to extend the characteristic to Android customers.
With RCS, customers can ship and obtain terrific pictures and movies, chat over WiFi or cell records and realize while messages had been examine, among other capabilities.
Earlier this yr, AT&T and T-Mobile introduced they might make Google's messaging app as the default one on all their Android devices.
"Customers the use of Verizon's Message+ app can even get full get entry to to RCS abilities by the quit of the 12 months," Verizon stated in a announcement.
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