iBASIS approved for use of a Verizon local profile, the first via dynamic download, after a successful design and testing cycle Offers an alternate solution to permanent roaming challenges in the U.S.

When Google earlier this year detailed that its future consumer messaging effort would be centered around RCS and Messages, AT&T and Verizon also signaled that it would adopt the Universal Profile.

Verizon is looking to launch RCS text messaging in early 2019, according to the company's SVP of consumer products Apart Khurjekar. Khurjekar took the stage at a New Jersey GSMA event to make the ...