When At&T blocked facetime over celluar use, At&t said they have all right to so, but it looks like FCC is saying hold up. The FCC maybe looking to fine At&t for blocking the service.
Following that announcement, AT&T made the decision to limit that feature to customers who use its shared data plans, a move that disheartened and angered many current and potential customers. However, it may not just be disgruntled consumers that AT&T will have to deal with. Reports from GigaOM suggest that several open-Internet advocacy groups have warned AT&T of their intentions tofile a complaint against the American telecom giant with the Federal Communications Commission.
According to their claims, AT&T’s policy against cellular FaceTime is in direct conflict with network neutrality restrictions that were established by the FCC two years ago.
Matt Wood from the Free Press said:
“AT&T’s decision to block FaceTime unless a customer pays for voice and text minutes she doesn’t need is a clear violation of the FCC’s Open Internet rules…it’s particularly outrageous that AT&T is requiring this for iPad users, given that this device isn’t even capable of making voice calls.”