After seeing usage stats skyrocket follwing the Fring iPhone 4 update, which enabled 3G video calling, Fring has disabled the feature.
Fring caused a stir last week when it enabled 3G video calling on iPhone 4, the most notable omission of the iPhone 4′s built-in FaceTime video caqlling feature. Such a stir that the spike in Fring usage has caused the feature to be cut back, to give more bandwidth for Fring-to-Fring calls. Here’s Fring’s blog post on the matter —
“Since adding 2-way video calling on iPhone 4 yesterday we have seen another huge jump in fring video calling.
“As even more fringsters video call their friends on Android, Nokia and iPhones, we have seen some network ’stress’ (as the techies are telling me). So to free up capacity for more the fring-to-fring video calling, we are temporarily reducing support to 3rd –party Skype. Thanks for your patience.”
Like FaceTime itself, this spike would have settled by itself, as the novelty factor ebbed (fairly quickly) away. Apple’s FaceTime wants to make video calling part of everyday life for more people than the select group of enthusiasts that currently video call over Skype, but it’s not a feat it has managed yet.
via Fring
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