{"id":979244,"date":"2025-12-09T11:36:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T06:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=979244"},"modified":"2025-12-09T11:36:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T06:06:21","slug":"promise-that-made-airtel-join-reliance-jio-and-vodafone-idea-to-tie-up-with-google-to-take-on-whatsapp-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/09\/promise-that-made-airtel-join-reliance-jio-and-vodafone-idea-to-tie-up-with-google-to-take-on-whatsapp-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Promise&#8217; that made Airtel join Reliance Jio and Vodafone-Idea to tie-up with Google to take on WhatsApp in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel finally seems set to join Reliance Jio and Vodafone-Idea to take on WhatsApp in India. According to a report in Economic Times, 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 deal that would see Airtel soon start offering RCS \u2013 positioned as a successor to traditional SMS \u2013 using Google\u2019s platform.<\/p>\n<p>What made Airtel stay away from Google RCS so far<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel finally seems set to join Reliance Jio and Vodafone-Idea to take on WhatsApp in India. According to a report in Economic Times, 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 deal that would see Airtel soon start offering RCS \u2013 positioned as a successor to traditional SMS \u2013 using Google\u2019s platform. What made Airtel stay away from Google RCS so far<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,88,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979244","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}