Here are the carriers that will support Google Chat from the get-go

Google recently announced a new, unified messaging platform called Chat. Pausing development on the text-based Allo and video-oriented Duo, Google has finally decided to focus on a universal Android messaging effort, a la iMessage.

Google Chat uses the RCS (Rich Communications Services) standard, and feature-wise it is very similar to messaging apps like Facebook Messanger, WhatsApp, and Viber, but it's actually built on top of SMS. RCS, if you're not familiar, is a new universal standard that is meant to supplant SMS, and it offers the same features ...