Confirmation finally! \o/ 
http://gizmodo.com/5568215/apple-confirms-facetime-will-not-use-your-carrier-minutes
http://gizmodo.com/5568215/apple-confirms-facetime-will-not-use-your-carrier-minutes
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FaceTime calls don't use cell mins
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even if it did use your minutes, it currently only works from iPhone 4 to iPhone 4, which means Mobile to Mobile and that doesn't use your minutes either.
(Mobile to Mobile wile using AT&T in USA)
(Mobile to Mobile wile using AT&T in USA)
Thanks for confirming that, we all thought that it was our minutes that is used. Your to awesome.
Home wreckers themselves Gizmodo +1. I was operating under the assumption that it used both (perhaps the cell call for audio and WiFi for the video); but whether it uses the cell signal or not seems to be moot point.
Maybe, Maybe not. Because AT&T offers the video share option on some of it's dumbphones and smartphones and you have to pay for that seperately so it doesn't count as M2M. But with the video share the sender is the one who pays not the person recieving it.
I never suspected out minutes were at risk for all the reasons already mentioned. When they roll it out on 3G and/or start letting us use it to make video calls with other, non-facetime services then I wouldn't be shocked if we got dinged with a charge or two
Only with the ***** that is AT&T, it'll likely work quite well on the rest of the worlds networks.As Facetime ONLY works via WiFi, we did not need that confirmed.