AT&T goes official with Video Share – live video sharing!
By Will Park on Tuesday, June 19th, 2007 at 12:45 PM PST In AT&T, Announcements, Services
AT&T (NYSE: T) is making their Video Share service official with a limited roll-out on their 3G network today. The Video Share service marks the emergence of video calling within the US – and will only work on compatible phones (which have already been out for some time now). However, unlike video calling’s overseas brethren, the US version is limited with a one-way video direction, which users must manually flip to see the person on the other end.
The launch is limited to Atlanta, Dallas, and San Antonio for now, but is expected to go network-wide by the end of July. And, as cutting edge (for the US at least) services go, you can expect to shell out some coin to use this service – $9.99 buys you 60 minutes of Video Share-time, $4.99 a month gets you 25 minutes, or you can pay $0.39 per minute.
What, we have to pay in addition to that crazy-expensive unlimited data plan?! And it’s only one-way?! No thanks, our iPhone won’t even have Video Share capability anyway.
