Full rationale in the commit itself. http://people.freedesktop.org/~wjt/telepathy-spec-chan_iface_sms/spec/Connection_Interface_Cellular.html#org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Connection.Interface.Cellular.OverrideMessageServiceCentre
Merged, will be in telepathy-spec 0.19.12.
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