| News | Features | Interviews |
| Blog | Contact | Editorials |
| AT&T defends FaceTime decision |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-08-23 08:29:31 |
| "AT&T is defending its decision to limit the use of Apple's video chat feature, FaceTime, to its Mobile Share data plans by saying that the limitation does not violate the FCC's net neutrality rules. The company wrote in a blog post on Wednesday that some groups had 'another knee-jerk reaction' to AT&T's limitation, but the company argues that its decision meets all FCC requirements." You can expect Verizon to follow suit soon. Carriers don't do things like this unless they know the competition will tag along. This also happens to explain why Apple probably can't do much about it; if both Verizon and AT&T give FaceTime the boot like this, there's little Apple can do. For what it's worth - I'm happy The Netherlands (and Chile!) has unconditional net neutrality. This would not fly here, further illustrating the need for net neutrality. |
25    |
- "Start updating your applications for iOS 7. Now." - 2013-06-14 - Why does the design of iOS 7 look so different? - 2013-06-13 - The new Mac Pro: welcome back, Apple - 2013-06-11 - Walkmac revisited: the inside story of the 'first' portable Mac - 2013-06-02 - More related articles |
| News | Features | Interviews |
| Blog | Contact | Editorials |