If everyone used face time over cellular it would degrade ANY carrier's network. Bandwidth is not unlimited for any carrier.
A wise choice in my opinion.
ATT is no more evil than Verizon. They are all trying to make a buck off people who feel that they are entitled!
Not a wise choice. It's a scary choice. First off, there aren't going to be 3 million face time calls over celluar at once to bring the network to its knees. People would blow through their data cap too easily. Netflix and Hulu over LTE use way more bandwidth and they're fine.
It's a very dangerous precedent that violates net neutrality rules and forces you to pay for your data twice. I already paid for 5 GB of data (mainly for tethering, which is similar, but a little different since it enables data use by another device that isn't part of your contract). Why should I have to pay more by switching to a shared data plan in order to use that data how I want?
If AT&T wins the FCC complaint against it on this matter it is bad news. Carriers will next start charging for things like YouTube or access to Netflix or Hulu because they're 'burdens on the network'. Or worse...preferential treatment to their apps vs. established open net standards.
It's a terrible slope and needs to be lifted. Hopefully the FCC will rule AT&T's actions here illegal and force them to open facetime over cellular for all.