{"id":3441,"date":"2012-03-16T01:13:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T06:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3441"},"modified":"2012-03-16T01:15:13","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T06:15:13","slug":"despite-higher-network-speeds-no-facetime-calls-over-lte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3441","title":{"rendered":"Despite higher network speeds, no FaceTime calls over LTE"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Apple&#8217;s open source (albeit with the source code yet to be released by Apple) video chat spec first launched in 2010 with a vague promise from then-CEO Steve Jobs that it might be available over cellular data connections once the cell networks &#8220;get ready for the future.&#8221; Since then, there have been plenty of rumors that the iPhone would soon gain the ability to make FaceTime calls over 3G\u2014particularly as the launch of iOS 5 loomed last October\u2014but it still hasn&#8217;t happened. <strong>Attempting to make a FaceTime call when not connected to a WiFi network results in a pop-up that explains a WiFi network is necessary to complete the action.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/news\/2012\/03\/despite-higher-network-speeds-no-facetime-calls-over-lte.ars\">Despite higher network speeds, no FaceTime calls over LTE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder why FaceTime cares what network carries its data.\u00a0 The network layers should be independent of the application.\u00a0 If it works with WiFi it should work with LTE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s open source (albeit with the source code yet to be released by Apple) video chat spec first launched in 2010 with a vague promise from then-CEO Steve Jobs that it might be available over cellular data connections once the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3441\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[288,546],"class_list":["post-3441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking","tag-apple","tag-lte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3443,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions\/3443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}