[singpolyma3]

You can get access to send MMS though. RCS there is no one selling access yet, especially for person to person.

[WorldPeas]

It seems people are, but not anyone with a big name: https://jibe.google.com/partners/messaging-partners/ I'm guessing it's provisioned this way. https://developers.google.com/business-communications/rcs-bu...

EDIT: https://github.com/android-rcs/rcsjta

[singpolyma3]

Yes the Google Business stuff exists for B2C marketing type use cases, but it is a very limited feature set compared to real RCS and cannot be used for regular communications using phone numbers.

[lxgr]

I believe GP's objection is to not being able to access RCS from a non-Google-provided app on Android, not access to the RCS network on the backend side.

[singpolyma3]

Either might be useful but I'm actually more interested in the latter because I run a phone service