AT&T defends controversial FaceTime policy following widespread backlash

. AT&T (T) is wasting no time hitting back at critics of its decision to limit the use of popular video chat app FaceTime over its cellular network to users who sign up for its shared data plans. In a post on the company's official public policy blog on Wednesday, AT&T chief privacy officer Bob Quinn sneered at criticisms that restricting FaceTime over cellular to shared data plans violates the Federal Communications Commission's network neutrality rules for wireless networks.
“The FCC's net neutrality rules do not regulate the availability to customers of applications that are preloaded on phones,” he wrote.

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