Exactly. That it will require always on connection was a speculation and this one is too. Why not wait a few weeks to find out for real? I think May 21st is when they reveal it.
(Hits with the rumor today, and more tomorrow, when the inevitable follow-up lands. And the day before the event, when you reiterate the state of the rumor mill, and the day after the event when you score the rumor mill...)