RCS messaging “waiting for activation”

[nathan520]

I’ve tried to enable RCS messaging on my iPhone but when I’ve tried to enable it in settings it’s just said that it’s waiting for activation. It didn’t show anything in my settings on my old phone (iPhone 12) but bought the 16 in december and it’s been showing this since then. Smarty say they support RCS messaging so how has it still not activated after several months?

[WelshPaul]

Smarty does not support RCS messaging. 

[Christo_3190142]

If it wasn’t supported it wouldn’t appear on the settings, eg when I had my VOXI sim installed the RCS option wasn’t there

[WelshPaul]

SMARTY doesn't have its own iOS profile, they use THREE's iOS profile and that’s why the setting shows. However, THREE’s RCS service doesn’t work with Smarty, and thus it’s not supported.

[Christo_3190142]

Maybe they should get their own iOS profile then so we can have access to RCS? Why wouldn’t they?

[WelshPaul]

Having their own profile doesn’t enable RCS support. Smarty need their own RCS servers or Three need to modify theirs so that they work with MVNOs that use their network to provide a service.

[Christo_3190142]

Well maybe they should do that. Three owns SMARTY as far as I’m aware so it’s in their interest to do so.