{"id":659119,"date":"2013-05-20T17:25:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T21:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=568395"},"modified":"2013-05-20T17:25:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T21:25:14","slug":"att-says-all-customers-will-soon-get-access-to-facetime-hangouts-over-cellular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/659119","title":{"rendered":"AT&amp;T says all customers will soon get access to FaceTime, Hangouts over cellular"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/20\/att-video-chat-apps-unblocked\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/att-sign-221.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"AT&amp;T Video Chat Apps\" title=\"AT&amp;T Video Chat Apps\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>AT&amp;T has always been hesitant to allow customers to use video chat applications on its cellular network. The company previously blocked Apple&#8217;s FaceTime service from <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/iphone\">iPhone<\/a> devices, only recently <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/01\/16\/att-iphone-facetime-3g-293486\/\">allowing customers on a tiered data plan<\/a> to use the feature. <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/att\">AT&amp;T<\/a> further angered customers when it blocked <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/android\">Android<\/a> users from using the video chatting feature in <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/16\/google-hangouts-sms-integration-confirmed\/\">Google&#8217;s new Hangouts application<\/a>\u00a0unless connected to a Wi-Fi network. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/5\/20\/4348672\/att-will-allow-all-video-chat-apps-on-its-network-by-end-of-2013\">a statement given to <em>The Verge<\/em><\/a>, the carrier confirmed that it will update its controversial policy later this year and will enable preloaded video chat applications over its cellular networks for all customers, regardless of their data plan or device. AT&amp;T&#8217;s statement follows below. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/20\/att-video-chat-apps-unblocked\/\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/XCYutlPOPNE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AT&amp;T has always been hesitant to allow customers to use video chat applications on its cellular network. The company previously blocked Apple&#8217;s FaceTime service from iPhone devices, only recently allowing customers on a tiered data plan to use the feature. AT&amp;T further angered customers when it blocked Android users from using the video chatting feature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}