Carrier Services is the application developed by Google so that mobile devices running on Android and with a connection to telephone data networks can make the most of the latter. It's a component that keeps up to date all the specifications of the so-called IMS architecture that provides support to data, voice, and multimedia traffic.

Carrier Services 20240108 Your Android device with the latest mobile connectivity specifications

That means that to make a device compatible with the latest network technologies, it won't be the manufacturers or carriers who have to update: the process will be much more simple thanks to the fact that it will be Google who will do so through Google Play, just as if it were an ordinary application, reaching more and more devices. However, that does hinder those users that use Android without making use of Google, although they're a minority.

In turn, this Carrier Services app includes support to improve the features of Android Messages. That's the operating system's own messaging application, similar to Apple's iMessage for iOS, that resorts to the RCS communication standard. The latter allows us, for instance, to send images or group chats without needing to have an Internet connection. However, that doesn't mean that if you've got both apps installed that you're going to able to make use of these functions: not until our carrier accepts.

All the latter may sound confusing, therefore, we're going to sum up the functions and features of this app as follows:

It's an app that runs in the background and without an interface.

Its main function is to help carriers to use the RCS communications standard to send information to our phones.

Thanks to the latter, we can send images or stickers or write in group chats by SMS without having an Internet connection.

Carrier Services 20240108 What's new in the latest version

Bug fixes and stability improvements.

Carrier Services 20240108 Requirements and additional information:

Minimum operating system requirements: Android 8.0.

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Carrier Services is the app developed by Google to update mobile devices running on Android with the latest features in telephone network connectivity