美国电话电报公司（AT&T）直言不讳的监管事务高级副总裁鲍勃•奎恩（Bob Quinn）对该公司最近宣布的限制FaceTime over cellular的呼声进行了猛烈抨击，他说，利益集团Public Knowledge和其他人已经“匆忙做出判断”，认为他们可能违反了FCC对移动设备适用的相对温和的开放互联网法规。在许多方面，这正是我们在&amp；的预期路线；我没法接受。

Quinn的帖子，一封七段式的信件，似乎在某些地方对AT&T的诽谤者言之凿凿，指出“客户将继续能够通过Wi-Fi使用FaceTime，无论他们选择何种数据计划，“好像在说，AT&T可以或应该对其客户在宽带网络上使用的移动应用程序进行某种控制，而AT&T甚至无法管理这些应用程序。不过，更有趣的语言是奎因试图论证此举为何没有违反联邦通讯委员会的规定：

Our policies regarding FaceTime will be fully transparent to all c***umers, and no one has argued to the contrary. There is no transparency issue here.

Nor is there a blocking issue. The FCC's net neutrality rules do not regulate the availability to customers of applicati*** that are preloaded on phones. Indeed, the rules do not require that providers make available any preloaded apps. Rather, they address whether customers are able to download apps that compete with our voice or video telephony services. AT&T does not restrict customers from downloading any such lawful applicati***, and there are several video chat apps available in the various app stores serving particular operating systems. (I won't name any of them for fear that I will be accused by these same groups of discriminating in favor of those apps. But just go to your app store on your device and type "video chat.") Therefore, there is no net neutrality violation.

奎因以某种方式辩称，这些规则只适用于下载的应用程序——“规则不要求提供商提供任何预加载的应用程序，”他指出——这似乎表明，如果苹果要在应用商店提供无限制、无障碍的FaceTime版本，AT&T对此无能为力。这对每一个移动平台也可能产生更广泛的影响：例如，Android上的Google Talk和Windows Phone上的任何Skype集成。

但最后，奎恩承认了我们都可能猜到的：这和at&T担心的一样，at&T的“4G”网络——在芝加哥市中心等地异常脆弱——会在额外负载下崩溃：

We are broadening our customers' ability to use the preloaded version of FaceTime but limiting it in this manner to our newly developed AT&T Mobile Share data plans out of an overriding concern for the impact this expansion may have on our network and the overall customer experience.

当然，在设计有限的数据桶时已经考虑到了容量管理，所以这并不是一个好的答案。奎因说，公司新的移动共享计划“旨在向消费者提供更多的数据”（他的重点），但目前还不清楚这到底意味着什么，他从来没有冒险解释过。没有迹象表明AT&amp；T正在从这件事上退缩——这不是任何人所期望的——所以我们必须看看公共知识、自由新闻和其他人将在多大程度上展开斗争。