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Originally Posted by cocochannel

Excuse me? how can u say that video calling isnt't "popular here" when it has never been offered by any of the major 4?
if they were offered and heavily marketed by at&t and co I'm sure it would be as successful here in the US as it is elsewhere.

And plus you need to know that
1) only AT&T would be able to offer video calling as of today. They never did offer it because they never had a widespread 3G network. (remember the iphone wasnt 3G at first cause apple considered at&t 3G network wasnt wide enough). Now they are better but stil very spotty and they could/might offer it in the near future (maybe with the 3rd iphone).

2) Tmobile are far away from beiing 3G. Only New York is kind of covered.

3) Like someone else said Sprint and Verizon are CDMA so they will never offer video calling as long as they are CDMA. Maybe they wiill next gen once everyone is LTE.

Video calling has been offered before over other methods (landlines/etc). It has never taken off. Sprint and Verizon could cover it if they really wanted to by putting a separate data radio in their phones. It has been a hit in other countries for a while.