Hello,
Some “announces” state that SMS will be disabled in the following years in Europe, in favor of RCS.
Currently, it does not seem that RouterOS support RCS with RouterBOARD LTE modems,
Will this feature be added in future RouterOS releases, in order to replace the SMS part ?
Could be useful for scripting,
I doubt it will ever be implemented, maybe on some ROS release in 2040, even current SMS support is incomplete.
I think we're a bit away from that I suspect.
But I'd imagine the modem AT / MBIM command would just map "SMS" operations to RCS transport if that happened... since there is separation from the "API" to send/receive and the actually 3GPP communications. i.e. might be transparent to user//tool/sms (and/or just require firmware update). And it also could be just the backend SS7/MAP interchange where SMS is not allowed, and the carriers have to use RCS as inter-carrier exchange. But SMS is a problem in that it still uses the PSTN's SS7 backbone, where one can presume multiple nation states are capturing most/all SMS messages.
Interesting,
MikroTik will need to modify AT commands when dialing with the modem to insert the right parameters, depending if the message is sent in SMS or RCS ?
This is something MikroTik should have a look on in the following months/years