Apple: FaceTime Video Calls Won't Use Minutes
Apple announced today that the much awaited feature in the iPhone 4, FaceTime, won't use any carrier minutes like many people initially thought. According to Apple, the call will be placed over the cellular network, but as soon as you hit the FaceTime button, the call will end (ending the use of your minutes) and the video will be routed over a Wi-Fi network connection.
"The voice call ends as soon as the FaceTime call connects," Apple tells us. "The FaceTime call is over Wi-Fi so does not use carrier minutes."
This is great news for the many people who will be using this feature, but we would love to use FaceTime over the cellular network while on-the-go.
Of course, one of the things both Apple and any potential carriers will need to work out is how the video chats will be billed. Will they count towards regular minutes, data, or something completely new?
via BusinessInsider
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June 21, 2010 at 10:17pm
Clarify this for me...does it cost to call an ATT customer from an ATT phone? My understanding is that in network calls do not cost anything. With that assumption, how would this article be relevant? Face Time is between one iPhone 4 to another, which'd, for the time being, be only limited to ATT customers. Meaning, air time minutes wouldn't count...and believe me, if Verizon ever picks up iPhones, I'm sure they'll come out with a different method of Face Time, i.e. - 3G. Perhaps this is a great strategic move on ATT for tiered data pricing. But who knows?
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