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Can RCS Overcome the OTT Threat?
By
Damian Sazama, VP of Corporate and Product Marketing
on November 13, 2012
Much has been written about whether "over-the-top" services, such as Skype, WhatsApp, and iMessage represent a threat to mobile network operators, potentially relegating their role to that of a dumb ...
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