AT&T has announced that it will enable FaceTime over Cellular for all customers by the end of the year in a statement provided to the The Verge.
----- For video chat apps that come pre-loaded on devices, we currently give all OS and device makers the ability for those apps to work over cellular for our customers who are on Mobile Share or Tiered plans. Apple, Samsung and BlackBerry have chosen to enable this for their pre-loaded video chat apps. And by mid-June, we’ll have enabled those apps over cellular for our unlimited plan customers who have LTE devices from those three manufacturers.
Throughout the second half of this year, we plan to enable pre-loaded video chat apps over cellular for all our customers, regardless of data plan or device; that work is expected to be complete by year end.
Today, all of our customers can use any mobile video chat app that they download from the Internet, such as Skype. -----
Back in January, AT&T announced 'as a result of ongoing testing' that it would enable FaceTime over Cellular for all customers with a tiered data plan. The company initially tried to make the feature only available to those on Mobile Share plans but intense criticism and Net Neutrality complaints forced it to relax the restrictions.
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6a3420f - May 22, 2013 at 7:17am
I've been using FaceTime since day one thanks to Cydia.
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Blackapino - May 21, 2013 at 5:26am
Finally...& I've been Unlimited since 08, so finally...iPhone 5+LTE man...now..all..well.
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Ahamed Marzook - May 20, 2013 at 11:10pm
I am a LTE UNLIMITED plan user mine was enabled yesterday.
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Ab08 - May 20, 2013 at 10:31pm
LTE only (e.g. no iPhone 4 or 4S)
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iCrunch - May 20, 2013 at 7:52pm
Oh wow...That is bound to piss people off. Only customers with a since-2010-unavailable unlimited plan can do it next month and the rest have to wait until year's end!? lol...I have that unlimited plan, but this is wasted on me, as I'm jailbroken and I can't even imagine not being able to FaceTime from the beach, in the car, quickly showing something to someone in a store, for example, etc., etc. I need my buddies to have it who don't have the unlimited plan!
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iCrunch - May 20, 2013 at 7:58pm
Wait a minute. Maybe I read that wrong??? As of today, tiered plan customers CAN do FaceTime over 3G/4G? So by year's end, people with HTC phone, for example, will be included??? If that's the case, Samsung is paying off its carrier partners to have exclusivity over competing Android phone manufacturers. Oh boy!
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Ahamed Marzook - May 20, 2013 at 11:13pm
If you are jail broken still you can do it with the jailbreak apps.
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