{"id":979083,"date":"2025-12-09T07:46:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T02:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=979083"},"modified":"2025-12-09T07:58:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T02:28:26","slug":"airtel-google-reunite-to-roll-out-rcs-messaging-in-india-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/09\/airtel-google-reunite-to-roll-out-rcs-messaging-in-india-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel, Google reunite to roll out RCS messaging in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Bharti Airtel has joined forces with Google, after a year of keeping a distance with the US technology company over offering rich communication services (RCS) messaging on the Indian telecom operator\u2019s network.<\/p>\n<p>Both companies have signed a pact that would see Airtel soon start offering RCS \u2013 positioned as a successor to traditional SMS \u2013 using Google\u2019s platform.<\/p>\n<p>Airtel will charge \u20b90.11 per message, under an 80:20 revenue share arrangement with Google, industry executives told ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Bharti Airtel has joined forces with Google, after a year of keeping a distance with the US technology company over offering rich communication services (RCS) messaging on the Indian telecom operator\u2019s network. Both companies have signed a pact that would see Airtel soon start offering RCS \u2013 positioned as a successor to traditional SMS \u2013 using Google\u2019s platform. Airtel will charge \u20b90.11 per message, under an 80:20 revenue share arrangement with Google, industry executives told ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}