Texting has changed over the past few years. With Android phones' adoption of RCS messaging in 2019 and Apple's reluctant acceptance of the new standard earlier this year in iOS 18, legacy SMS texting ...

Late last year, T-Mobile finally unveiled its satellite messaging service in partnership with Starlink, which is appropriately called T-Mobile Starlink. In development for years, this service allows ...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced Thursday that it adopted its first regulations targeting scam text messages sent to consumers. Under the new rules, mobile service providers will ...

Text-to-Pay lets customers pay bills via SMS by clicking secure payment links. Requires PCI-compliant processing, TCPA ...

A Dec. 26, 2023, Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows video of a woman claiming T-Mobile changed its fine print to penalize customers for what they say in ...

Text-to-911 is a feature available to essentially all smartphone users. With it, you can text with dispatchers during an ...

SMS/text messaging provides a direct mechanism to reach constituents. By sending content directly to their mobile device, users are more likely to consume and appropriately react to content that has ...

Mobile phone users are set to be better protected from text message scams, under new rules for providers to follow. Regulator Ofcom has announced a package of planned measures to "significantly" drive ...

You may not realize it, but your healthcare organization already has the data it needs to increase patient retention and improve business process efficiency through a practice-patient text messaging ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. The technology underpinning early mobile text messaging began development in the 1980s. The short message service (SMS) ...