Reports: AT&T rolling out FaceTime over cellular to more customers
AT&T is now rolling out support for FaceTime over cellular networks to more of its customers, as the carrier announced last week, but there may be a twist. While AT&T said it would only extend the video-conferencing feature to LTE-enabled devices on tiered data plans, reports from several sources suggest that customers previously thought ineligible may also be able to join the party.
MacRumors was among the first to report that even customers with grandfathered-in unlimited data plans may be getting access to FaceTime over cellular. However, as the rollout is gradual—AT&T estimated it would take between eight and ten weeks to reach all customers—it’s difficult to establish whether or not this is a case of quiet generosity on AT&T’s part, an inadvertent error, or simply inaccurate information.
These newly eligible users would join customers of AT&T’s Mobile Share plans, who the carrier said in August would be granted access to the feature when it arrived as part of iOS 6.
Macworld has reached out to AT&T to determine whether the carrier has expanded its pool of eligible customers; the carrier says it’s investigating Wednesday’s reports.
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