AT&T Seems to Be Extending FaceTime-Over-Cellular to All Customers

Restarted my phone and seen the toggle was on now it's back to off. I'm on a 3gb data plan.

SamGabbay said:

Where are you located? Most NYC customers are reporting success.

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I am in the NYC metro area (northern NJ) and have iPhone 5 with grandfathered unlimited, I rebooted and mine too says call AT&T... I hardly ever use Facetime, but its more the principle of the matter! I honestly rather have LTE in my neck of the woods!

AT&T unlimited grandfathered. Had it since original iPhone in 2007. iOS 6.0.1. Western NY. Carrier version 13.0. iPhone 5.

DOES NOT WORK.

Tried multiple soft and hard resets.

Still getting prompt to go to website, or call.

Interesting how we have a news story about it being extended and a reach out to AT&T for clarification, but no news story about FT being enabled and then re-disabled.

It's a slow news day too.

Still doesn't work.

I am in Hudson County, New Jersey .... just across the River from Manhattan. I have tried powering my phone off, then back on but I am still not able to turn on "use Cellular Data". Is there anything else I need to do to be able to do so? Or is it just taking AT&T a while to make this feature available in my area?

I guess it was just a mistake on at&ts end. It is very annoying indeed as I got very excited!

Lets see what happens in the future and if they will allow us Unlimited-ers to have FT over Cellular.

iPhone 4S ATT iOS 6.0.1 unlimited. Nothing. I'm in Cleveland, Ohio.

No go in Nashville

Not working in the Nashville area. iPhone 5 unlimited for me iPhone 4S for my wife tiered.

Had to reboot my phone twice but it works! 4S - iOS 6.01
Chicagoland area.

Just restarted two more times and still no go in Ann Arbor, MI.

(iPhone 5, AT&T grandfathered unlimited data, iOS 6.0.1)

c1phers said:

Had to reboot my phone twice but it works! 4S - iOS 6.01
Chicagoland area.

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yes, but tomorrow it won't

Still not working for me in NY.

no luck in ATL

iPhone 5 with unlimited in Atlanta... tried to restart and a hard reset... c'mon ATT...

I posted earlier that mine was working near Portland, Oregon... now it's turned off again. It worked well for the few days that I had it.

Nothing on my iPad Mini ($30 unlimited) in Seattle, WA. Tried hard restart.

It is back off on my iPhone also.

I'm in Chicago and just tried using this for the first time and got a prompt to call AT&T. I'm on an iPhone 5 with an original iPhone unlimited plan. Was this shut down?

Just Confirmed with AT&T

Today is December 14th. I just had an on-line chat with an AT&T representative. She confirmed that within 8 to 10 weeks we will be able to use FaceTime-Over-Cellular. This even applies to those of us who have grandfathered in unlimited data plans!!

I believe FT over cellular is market specific. I was out of town this past week visiting a relative in Ft Lauderdale went only with my 4s. I had a good solid 4g signal on my 4s yet I could not FT over cellular.

I returned to Chicago and I was unable to FT over cellular. then I turned FT off and rebooted the phone. After the phone came back on I turned FT back on and I was back to being able to FT over cellular. Ymmv

I just tried it today on my iPhone 5 AT&T 5gb data plan I live in Lewisburg PA, I did a hard reset and now I am able to facetime over cellular!

is there anyway we can start a poll to see who has it where?

i think this would be nicer to see. plus im dying to know who else can do this in Dallas.. almost switched to mobile share plan seemed like a good deal, but there are 2 lines with unlimited data..

trvsglr said:

I just tried it today on my iPhone 5 AT&T 5gb data plan I live in Lewisburg PA, I did a hard reset and now I am able to facetime over cellular!

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Since you're on a tiered data plan, you're capable.

The ones without it seem to be those of us with the grandfathered Unlimited data plans.

Munkypoo7 said:

Since you're on a tiered data plan, you're capable.

The ones without it seem to be those of us with the grandfathered Unlimited data plans.

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Look back through the messages here, quite a few grandfathered in plans are still working. I am grandfathered in and I just rebooted my phone and now it works. Not sure what happened today because it has been rebooted recently and it was off until I just tried it.

EDIT : Worked for a bit then stopped working and now back to "Off".

Facetime Over AT&T Cellular (Unlimited Plan)?

I believe I read that AT&T was starting to allow Facetime over cellular if you have an unlimited plan? Don't know if I dreamed it but from what I remember, people were starting to see that they could use FT without having a regular plan. Mine says I need to have an eligible data plan so I can only use it over WiFi. My daughter's phone is on the 3GB plan so she can use her's anywhere.

iMas70 said:

I believe I read that AT&T was starting to allow Facetime over cellular if you have an unlimited plan? Don't know if I dreamed it but from what I remember, people were starting to see that they could use FT without having a regular plan. Mine says I need to have an eligible data plan so I can only use it over WiFi. My daughter's phone is on the 3GB plan so she can use her's anywhere.

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Yes AT&T has allowed it with unlimited accounts. But I'm having trouble contacting AT&T customer service to get my issue of not being able to FT over cellular resolved.