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[telecom] help?! problems sending cellular "texts"

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"texts" in quotes because... read on...

Earlier this year I had to "upgrade" my cell phone
to, in my case, a Motorola, umm, something, running
the Android software.

Aside from the spybot nature (and that's just the
admitted ones...) of far too many of the applications
(which I've mostly locked off - at least as they
report to me..) it's mostly good.  And I have to
say I'm impressed at the photo quality which, except
for two uses, surpasses my DSLRs [a].

The problem: while most of the time I can send and receive [b]
"text" messages, periodically I run into the following problem.

Earlier today I was sending out to a dozen or so people
(individual, direct messages).  Most went through ok
but two of them stayed on my phone with "unable to send"
flags.

They were kind enough to say something like (I forget
the exact wording) "unable to establish encrypted connection.
Try again in plain text?".

I told the phone to go ahead.  Still no good.

Any suggestions?  Note I've sent these people
prior and later messages a-ok.

Thanks.

My phone, being an Android unit, tries to hook up
via the "Rich Communication Services" (RCS) protocol.

This is pretty ubiquitous in the Android world and
is making inroads to iPhones.

If my phone doesn't get the proper RCS handshake
from the recipient, it's supposed to drop back
to cleartext SMS (the older arrangement).

One of the people I was sending to has a pretty
new Samsung Android with RCS, the other has an iPhone
which might or might not...

Again, though, I've had earlier and later material
go right through.

Any suggestions?  Thanks mucly

[a] the two key exceptions are using extreme telephoto
     settings - as the lenses on my DSLRs are the real
     optical deal as opposed to digital cropping, and
     the ability to use polarizing filters.

     Oh, one more: being able to set the shutter speed
     down to 1/10th or so of a second so I can take
     pictures of LED signs.  With the phone, the picture
     is snapped too quickly and often the LED image
     is only partly captured.

[b] well, I don't "really" know if I've received all
     the messages since if I don't get them, and the
     sender doesn't follow up, etc., etc., etc.

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 		     dannyb@panix.com
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