Facetime over cellular

Apparently ATT has blocked usage of FACETIME over the network unless you want to pay for additional services

http://www.tgdaily.com/mobility-features/66303-att-slammed-over-facetime-block

AT&T requires you to be using one of their "Shared Data" plans in order to FaceTime over 3G.

Yea I was on the phone with ATT for 2 hours last night. I finally got fed up and just released the call. The nice lady we spoke to today hinted around that the decision could be changing very soon. Maybe she was not filling me with false hope.

Hope they win the law suit !

ATT already makes a fortune off of my 5 phones !

Bad that they are disabling the Apple software so they can make more money !

I guess you don't read the news....

AT&T should NOT be telling us how to use our data. It's a way for them to get rid of the unlimited data users.

I'm writing a complain letter to the FTC.

I hope they get sued big time.

DC

Sorry I am responding to everyone who has brought this issue up to make sure that the word gets out. I am glad to see that this is getting noticed. I went thru this today

AT&T wants to charge for it. Also caution: If you are "grandfathered" into an unlimited data plan and switch to a new "termed" data plan just to get face time available without wifi your unlimited data plan is no longer valid. Also note that AT&T no longer offers an unlimited data plan at this time so you cannot get it back

I downloaded IOS6 and turned my wifi off and tried facetime. It advised that I need to contact AT&T to make sure I had the applicable data plan.

I had an interesting conversation with AT&T today. They told me that I had to sign up for a new plan.

They fully admit that Facetime is interent based and goes over the internet when connected to wifi. I responded that when wifi is turned off, it goes thru the internet on the phone which is data. Since I have unlimited data they are now restricting my unlimited data. They won't deny that. They only state that AT&T offers a new plan which allows you to use facetime without wifi. I believe it was called "mobile sharing"

I escalated to three different supervisors until there wasn't a higher one present. They commited to have someone call me back tomorrow. I asked that take this as a formal complaint. I also advised that I would be contacting the BBB as they have stepped over the bounds of ethichal behavior.

and what about consumers iphone in Indonesia?we don't have cellular operator like AT&T.

are this features can be used with anything cellular operator?