AT&T Quietly Extends FaceTime Over Cellular to All Customers [Update: Debunked]

Following a great deal of controversy over AT&T’s decision to block unlimited data plan holders (and anyone not on their new shared data plans) from using FaceTime over Cellular, the carrier has now apparently silently extended the feature to all their users in a somewhat surprising move.

MacRumors reports:

AT&T appears to be quietly extending FaceTime-Over-Cellular capabilities to all their iPhone customers. Earlier this month, AT&T announced that they would allow any customer “with an LTE device” on a “tiered data plan” to use iOS 6’s FaceTime over Cellular feature.

I just turned off my other phone, a 4S and turned it back on, only to find the switch flipped to ON for facetime over cellular. Both phones work perfectly over cellular.[…] I also checked a few coworkers phones, all now have FT over cellular.

I’ve also tested the feature on 3 AT&T iPhones with unlimited data, and have contacted individuals with unlimited iPhone data on the carrier, and have found that all of them are now able to use the feature.

It’s about time. See AT&T, was it really THAT hard to do the right thing? Now let’s hope it wasn’t just a fluke…

Update: Yup. It was a fluke. Turns out AT&T didn’t do the right thing after all…

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