Speculation AT&T Plans to Charge iPhone FaceTime Users

629 views · Published 18 July 2012 · 3:02 · Indexed 20 September 2026

Channel: The Wall Street Journal · 2012 · News & Politics

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Software developers using a pre-release version of Apple Inc.'s iPhone operating system have hit a roadblock while trying to access the popular video-calling application FaceTime on AT&T Inc.'s cellular network. The sudden change has prompted speculation that AT&T is gearing up to charge users for the data-intensive application. That's because a new notice about the restriction in the software strongly resembles a notification that emerged in another pre-release version of the software two years ago. At that time, the alert appeared just before AT&T began allowing users to pay for tethering, which permits other devices to use the phone's network connection. 
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