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  • Orbit Editorial Team

    Google Verified SMS vs. RCS: How to Move from the Legacy Program

    Google Verified SMS is a legacy program, not a future sender strategy. This guide explains when to move verification to an RCS verified sender, use an Apple Messages verified thread, or keep trust on verified caller and branded calling while SMS remains the fallback.

    • Google Verified SMS
    • RCS
    • verified sender
    • Apple Messages for Business
    • branded calling
    • messaging
  • Orbit Editorial Team

    Apple Intelligence and Siri-Enabled Business Calling — What Changed for Outbound Voice Branding

    Apple's extended Apple Intelligence voice stack — a Siri-enabled business-communications layer with business-messaging hooks and a call-manager surface — is now documented for business calling. What Apple has published, what a business should prepare, and how the Orbit Verified-Caller surface passes the branding metadata through with no claim on Apple's backend.

    • Apple Intelligence
    • Siri
    • branded calling
    • outbound voice
    • industry news
    • iOS
  • Orbit Editorial Team

    Rich Call Data (RCD) and Branded Calling Explained — Verified Name, Logo, and Call Reason on the Recipient's Screen

    Branded calling puts your verified business name, logo, and reason for calling on the recipient's incoming-call screen instead of raw digits — a bigger answer-rate lever than CNAM alone. What RCD (ATIS-1000095) carries, why it rides STIR/SHAKEN attestation rather than replacing it, and the tenant-owned levers Orbit ships for it.

    • voice
    • branded calling
    • Rich Call Data
    • STIR/SHAKEN
    • caller-ID
    • 2026

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