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A couple of weeks ago AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile announced that they had started working on their cross-provider RCS implementation - https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/24/20931202/us-carriers-rcs...

Does Google doing this essentially mean they've gotten sick of waiting for the carriers and decided to bypass them entirely? If so, the carriers can't be happy about that.

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Google was trying to market Jibe as a service carriers could pay for to handle their RCS messaging for them. When carriers announced CCMI, they made it clear they weren't interested in paying for Jibe. https://jibe.google.com/jibe-platform/

Clearly, Google wants the data badly enough to provide said messaging services for free, and doesn't want carriers to keep the data to themselves. But they were hoping carriers would pay them and that they'd also get the data.

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