Adoption of RCS, the successor to the SMS/MMS standard, has remained relatively slow among carriers and devices. Google has spearheaded the effort by building its own 'Jibe' RCS hub and integrating it into its Android Messages SMS app, making it easier for carriers to support it. Samsung opted to build its own RCS hub, but Huawei has decided to get behind Google's technology.

Huawei announced today that it is collaborating with Google to offer Jibe to carrier partners, as part of an integrated solution with the company's IMS service. In other words, Huawei will help Google push adoption of RCS.

In addition, the company will switch to Android Messages as the default SMS/RCS app on its devices "in the coming months." Hopefully we'll see more carriers adopt RCS in the coming months - particularly ones in the United States.

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