Most people think the day when telco messaging services lose out completely to WhatsApp, Skype and iMessage is very close. Not Google, however, which has been seeking to breathe new life into the GSMA’s Rich Communication Services (RCS) and, in the process, create an effective messaging application for itself. Google has been working with RCS since it acquired Jibe Mobile in 2015 and in 2016 it released a universal profile which would allow different implementations to work together. Its unexpected interest was probably the only thing that saved RCS from being completely moribund, given that only a small handful of operators had supported it, and only Spain and South Korea had multi-operator roaming. Now the search giant has decided to…