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AT&T Announces FaceTime Over Cellular Coming To iPhone 5/New LTE iPads With iOS 6 (3G Kinda Sorta Too)!
Ask and ye shall receive. After unanimous and widespread outrage over AT&T’s move to restrict FaceTime over cellular functionality to only those customers which upgraded to the carrier’s Mobile Share (read: not such a great deal for most) plans, it appears something is forcing AT&T’s hand.
Today, the carrier announced plans to make FaceTime over cellular available to subscribers of older tiered (non-shared) data plans as long as they have an iOS 6 device such as the new iPhone 5 or newer iPad with LTE – no 3G support yet. According to AT&T, the aforementioned functionality should be made available in 8-10 weeks.
Further spreading the FaceTime love, AT&T also reiterated the availability of new billing plans that have been available since October 26th which cater specifically to their customers with hearing disabilities as a showing of their commitment to customers.
Apparently AT&T wants to stress test their LTE networks, and opening the FaceTime floodgates to many millions of iPhone 5 users will certainly do just that. Meanwhile, we’re still waiting for AT&T to allow us to FaceTime on any network of theirs that we’re using like every other carrier in the world. Of course, their 3G network is already fragile enough. Allowing FaceTime on AT&T 3G would quite possibly be the worst experience ever.
Update: AT&T has apparently told Engadget that FaceTime will also work over 3G on LTE supporting devices, just not non-LTE, 3G-only devices. Odd.
2012-11-09 04:00:17
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