T-Mobile recently announced that Rich Communications Services, an interoperable standard for messaging based on IMS, is coming to its smartphones and bringing some nifty new features with it. Problem is that most of those features have been available for some time already. As Recon Analytics’ Roger Entner sees it, despite the nice gesture from T-Mobile in making good on its promise to deliver the technology to subscribers, RCS’s big arrival is about 10 years too late.