facetime issues
We have a Verizon account. When we try to use facetime on the iphone, we get a message that says that we need to connect to wifi. We thought we were already using wifi when we use safari, post pix e...
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wildtoad wrote:srt20 wrote:
I'm not sure why you would have to be on wifi to use FaceTime on any ios or provider, but I guess it's possible for some weird reason.
Facetime can chew up a lot of bandwidth and providers restricted Facetime to wifi initially to better manage cell data usage especially on slower 3g ntworks. And I suspect as a way to upsell data plans. With the advent of LTE and cheaper data rates it's now available cell data.
I understand this, but LTE has been out for many years now. And I can't imagine anyone wanting to FaceTime on 3G after trying it once. It would be basically worthless.
I tried Skype over a good 3G signal one time. It was a complete fail.
Either way, it should not be an issue anymore.
Edit: I guess I forgot that vzw didn't get LTE Apple phone until the iPhone 5?
