AT&T to Launch Live Video Calling for Cingular Wireless Customers

Press Release - March 31, 2007

Cingular Wireless (AT&T) unveiled a new video calling service this week at CTIA Wireless 2007, which will allow 3G cell phone users to send a live video feeds over the airwaves while in the middle of a call.

Standard MMS services already allow customers to send prerecorded video messages to other users, but AT&T’s new Video Share application will take things one step further, making it possible to initiate live video streams in the middle of a conversation. Although it only works on a one-way basis at any given moment, users can toggle the direction of the video stream in mid-call.

AT&T said that Video Share would be rolled out this summer for Cingular customers in 50 U.S. markets. The company did not immediately offer any pricing information, or specify which handset models the new service would work with.