AT&T to retire Video Share service later this year

By on Apr 8, 2011 at 9:00 PM
mobile April 8, 2011

AT&T has confirmed to BGR that it will retire its Video Share service later this year. AT&T was the first to offer the option on its camera phones — when it launched Video Share in 2007 — but AT&T-branded mobile video calling may not be dead forever. An AT&T spokesperson shared this official comment: “AT&T is discontinuing our Video Share service. As we look ahead to the next generation of live, mobile video calling services, we’re evaluating new platforms and other ways we can evolve our mobile video calling offers. We’ve already begun to notify subscribers directly and will work with them to adjust their monthly charges accordingly. The service will be retired later this year.”

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  • drew dogg

    Tango all day.

    • Turnipgreens84

      I heard that.

  • http://twitter.com/dragonnetworks DC

    Ha. It never even worked anyways.

    When I was back on AT&T with my Tilt2 I couldn’t get VS to work. Even went to the corporate store where they went off trying to get any of their VS phones to talk to each other… no dice. Everyone in 3G-land, everyone with the feature provisioned, and none of the phones in the store or mine would even use Video Share at all.

  • Anonymous

    People used that? It was 5 extra bucks and barely worked

  • Anonymous

    One of the visages of “carrier-world” features. No wonder the iPhone easily crushed them with better vision, implementation and deployment.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, it was a ridiculously over-priced service that few people would have a need to subscribe to on a monthly basis. Offer this for a reasonable per-use price and I’ll bet it would have done well.

  • http://www.facebook.com/peterf Peter Fares

    They should have support the global 3G video calling standard and NOT stripped the front facing camera off of all their 3G phones. 3G phones had front facing cameras from the beginning, but AT&T and the rest of the American carriers had the manufactures remove them from the American phones. They also should have had reasonable pricing. Maybe even just make it take 2 minutes for each actual minute you use?

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    why they are getting lose or what

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