Their LTE video calls will require DATA + Minutes. BAWHWHAWHWHAWHAHAHAHA
We will stick with Facetime video/audio calls thank you very much.
Who deals with minutes anymore anyway?
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Verizon Preparing to Launch Voice Over LTE Network in September
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Who deals with minutes anymore anyway?
Worth noting that wideband audio / HD voice and supporting devices (such as iPhone 5) have been around for many years in many countries. It sounds great!
AT&T/T-Mobile users since 1992 "Let me call you back I'm getting in the elevator"
I can make phone calls on Verizon from the 3rd level of our underground parking structure and in ALL elevators.
It's just a wild guess... but somehow I don't think 12.65 kbits/sec is exactly bandwidth intensive...
GPRS, and it's EDGE upgrade, don't do simultaneous voice and data either. winkwinknudgenudge. UMTS does that.
Net Neutrality violation...
This is totally wrong way to do this since both LTE and VoLTE are on data line.
We must have LTE & VoLTE to be video interoperability same way with voice interoperability on telephone and mobile devices.
It is long overdue for not having video interoperability on mobile devices.
FCC and CRTC will disallow this due to net neutrality.
Raking $$$ both same time… will count against a customer's available minutes $$$ and data allotment $$$.
HD Voice and Video Calling -- were tightly integrated with their 4G LTE smartphones.
The problem with this. Video Calling is using VoLTE technology with the audio portion of a Video Call is delivered in HD Voice.
It make no sense of how they decide to count minutes and/or data! Eye opening!
This is totally wrong way to do this since both LTE and VoLTE are on data line.
We must have LTE & VoLTE to be video interoperability same way with voice interoperability on telephone and mobile devices.
It is long overdue for not having video interoperability on mobile devices.
FCC and CRTC will disallow this due to net neutrality.
Raking $$$ both same time… will count against a customer's available minutes $$$ and data allotment $$$.
HD Voice and Video Calling -- were tightly integrated with their 4G LTE smartphones.
The problem with this. Video Calling is using VoLTE technology with the audio portion of a Video Call is delivered in HD Voice.
It make no sense of how they decide to count minutes and/or data! Eye opening!
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Count me in!
I'm getting an iphone 6 with Verizon and increasing my data plan to 10GB for the family
lol just watch how you'll receive a message saying you got 30mb data remaining....
Video calling was around long before Facetime, and VoLTE is not Verizon-specific, but Facetime is Apple-specific.
You caught that too, huh?
I have an unlimited voice plan on VZW, and according to them my calls will not be a burden to VZW's network. Yet my sending an iMessage, or browsing to a website is. Hope the FCC is looking at that, also.
Yeah, I saw people video calling on their mobile devices ALL THE TIME before FaceTime came into existence. :roll eyes:
And there were tablets all over the place before the iPad...
And there were music players before the iPod...
And ultra books before the MBA...
Just because a technology existed doesn't mean it was anywhere near usable or desirable for the average person...
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Actually, video calls have been a huge mobile phone feature in Japan for a long time. Just because you personally don't see something, it isn't non-existent.
And that dude was acting like Apple invented video calling and like Verizon is knocking it off, when in fact Verizon is implementing something now that is based on 3GPP specifications from around the year 2000.
Well, if you don't have a smartphone or data plan, maybe you prefer to have data billed as minutes
Back in the day, my old LG flip-phone came with limited WAP functionality that billed as minutes. I fondly remember hacking its chipset to enable tethering its 3G connection over bluetooth to my PC. Data usage counted as a "call". It was pretty slow, but if you needed to check your email in the middle of nowhere, it was great.
I've never understood why people get so locked into FaceTime or nothing at all when there are so many video chatting apps available like Skype, Hangouts, etc. If the argument is "well you don't need a second app, it's all a part of the Apple experience," I'd argue that Hangouts and Skype are the same thing for their respective platforms, only they can be used across all devices, including Apple.
Whatever happened to making FaceTime available for everyone, anyway?
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This.
When we finally all only worry about ourselves and no one else, the world will become a better place.
I know. I thought they had fixed that when LTE came out. It really negated every "our network is better" commercial when you realized you could only use half your phone at a time.
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Actually, video calls have been a huge mobile phone feature in Japan for a long time. Just because you personally don't see something, it isn't non-existent.
And that dude was acting like Apple invented video calling and like Verizon is knocking it off, when in fact Verizon is implementing something now that is based on 3GPP specifications from around the year 2000.
Actually, it's been available in Japan for a long time, as it has in the US. But it is sparsely used there as here.
From the gazillion photo's they could have used, they ended up with this one..
http://www.agefotostock.com/en/Stock-Images/Royalty-Free/MOO-28970178
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