BROWSING: A2P

Application-to-person messaging is driving RCS adoption globally At the 2019 Competitive Carriers Association Convention, Josh Wigginton, VP of product management at Interop Technologies, spoke about the future of Rich Communication Services (RCS), which despite a slow adoption, is now picking up as business use cases...

Since the first text message was sent in 1992, messaging as a method of communication has exploded in popularity. Free unlimited texting was incorporated into the majority of mobile operator packages in the 2000s, and by 2008 the number of texts being sent in a month passed the number of phone calls in the United States. For many years, messaging represented a steady revenue source for...

Tyntec announces way to bridge P2P and A2P messaging over short codes Tyntec, a global cloud communications company, announced today a new proposal to build a framework in North America that bridges the gap between person-to-person messaging (P2P) and application-to-person (A2P) messaging over short codes. The...

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences. Text messaging this week reached the ripe old age of 22. Over the course of its lifetime it has had...

If you’ve used text messages from Facebook or Google to authenticate your account information, you’ve used application-to-person messaging – and a recent survey from Mobilesquared shows that such usage is on the rise, even as traditional text messaging use declines in favor of over-the-top...