Comments on: AT&T: We’re not violating FCC rules with FaceTime restrictions http://gigaom.com/2012/08/22/att-were-not-violating-fcc-rules-with-facetime-restrictions/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:21:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: ricdesan http://gigaom.com/2012/08/22/att-were-not-violating-fcc-rules-with-facetime-restrictions/#comment-928141 Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:53:13 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=555745#comment-928141 Bill, its actually about infrastructure and greed. They want consumers to pay more for the same level of service and make it impossible not to do so and still use their pipes. This goes hand in hand with their desire to avoid infrastructure upgrades to provide quality service to subscribers.

Pure and simple it is a strategic greed move on ATT’s part to dictate the success of the new higher shared plan pricing. i find it hilarious to see what people will put up with to use a specific device like the iphone.

]]> By: Bill Sweatt http://gigaom.com/2012/08/22/att-were-not-violating-fcc-rules-with-facetime-restrictions/#comment-927790 Wed, 22 Aug 2012 16:52:38 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=555745#comment-927790 It’s not about violating FCC rules or regulations. It’s about douch-baggery behavior. Don’t be one!

]]> By: hortron http://gigaom.com/2012/08/22/att-were-not-violating-fcc-rules-with-facetime-restrictions/#comment-926849 Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:35:06 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=555745#comment-926849 They’re blocking it because conceivably it competes with their voice service, right? And at some point they’ll want to position a class of voice/text/video services to sell/bundle. If they consider facetime-over-the-air as merely an IP application, they lose the ability to control it in the future.

Seriously, what’s going to happen when we’re all on LTE. And voice minutes have no meaning when their VoLTE applications can compete with any VoIP carrier? I think that’s part of why Verizon just said screw it and threw in unlimited voice, so they can take it off the table as an application later.

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