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- digmystuff, on 11/11/2008, -7/+147jailbreaking an iphone = $0
tethering = $0
not getting sucked into yet ANOTHER one ATT's already overpriced services = priceless - Braindead360, on 11/11/2008, -2/+67Screw that! If I want tethering that bad I'll just use Netshare, and if that doesn't work I'll jailbreak. It amazes me how AT&T is still convincing people that it's necessary to pay for this crap.
- Wongster41, on 11/11/2008, -2/+60wow... F THAT. Looks like I'll be Jailbreaking it
- magic6435, on 11/12/2008, -7/+44"3G iPhone tethering plan will run $30 a month over existing subscriptions and have a 5GB cap."
Hahaha i thought this ***** was from the onion are these bitches crazy? - aimhelix, on 11/12/2008, -1/+36PdaNet guys. Solved.
- JEWestbrookJR, on 11/11/2008, -1/+35yup. sounds like I will be re-jailbreaking.
Thanks for the heads up, AT&T. - uknowwhoibe, on 11/11/2008, -16/+41$30 seems high. Seems like you could get a wifi card for less than that.
- theblueprint, on 11/11/2008, -1/+25This is indicative of a larger issue.
I've been looking at gPhones, and one of the major selling points to me is that I'll be paying the charge for minutes and data *period*. After that, I'll only be limited by the applications developed for the gPhone.
I'm an admitted Mac-tard, and would prefer the iPhone. But I'm unwilling to get nickel & dimed (or $30'd) for every new feature. I don't trust AT&T not to to ***** iPhone customers at every opportunity, and it appears my mistrust is well-founded. - Ravatar, on 11/12/2008, -0/+20Maybe he meant aircard, like sprint's EVDO laptop card.
- mrsteveman1, on 11/12/2008, -1/+20It's high because you are already paying for data access to the tune of $30 a month. Now they want to charge you another $30 to access the same ***** service from another device, without even using them both at the same time.
This is outright criminal, charging for the same thing twice just because AT&T has control issues. - MWeather, on 11/12/2008, -0/+18What's the difference between the data sent from my phone, and the data sent from my computer, and why should i pay more for the latter?
- casspa, on 11/11/2008, -29/+46Android +1, iPhone -1
- bedfordbum, on 11/12/2008, -0/+16Its like they want you to jailbreak your phone.
- inactive, on 11/12/2008, -1/+16If you think for a second that you're going to be able to freely tether your android phone with T-Mobile forever, you've got another, almost exactly as expensive (29.95) thing coming.
- kent1146, on 11/12/2008, -0/+13+1 for PDANet for the iPhone (made by JuneFabrics).
For those who don't know, it allows you to use your iPhone as a wireless router. No cables, no SSH proxies. Connect to your iPhone via ad-hoc WiFi connection, and you get internet access on your laptop. - punterfpc, on 11/12/2008, -5/+18Wow... That's ridiculous...
- zezerik, on 11/12/2008, -0/+13Its $15 to tether for Verizon + $45.95 for the unlimited data. Doesn't make much sense either.
- timusca, on 11/12/2008, -1/+14That's the price of all of AT&T's smartphone tethering plans... not just the iPhone.
- BRODEL, on 11/12/2008, -0/+13And the reasons for jailbreaking keep piling up.. I guess I'll have to look into it again.
- Ratteler, on 11/12/2008, -2/+15"The customer has no rights." -Big business mantra for the 21st Century.
- vladin, on 11/12/2008, -2/+15PdaNet works great. :) and free.
- TommyBoy919, on 11/12/2008, -1/+14I just went with the jailbreak. Took hardly any time to do, plus its a $0 charge for tethering. I already give AT&T $90/mo for my iPhone voice/data/text plan so they can bite me. Tethering should be about $10/mo, if that. Their greed will ultimately cost them revenue, however I highly doubt their bean counters are smart enough to figure this out.
- MalDON, on 11/12/2008, -4/+16So wait, essentially it will cost 60 dollars a month... for 3g service that drops like crazy and gets horrible speeds during peak? Yea, funny ATT.
I'll stick with PDA NET. - HamNCheese, on 11/12/2008, -2/+14Nope - try $60/month with the same damn cap.
- inactive, on 11/12/2008, -1/+12Nice, time to jailbreak my phone again, because I sure as ***** am not paying 180 bucks a month for this thing.
- mrsteveman1, on 11/12/2008, -1/+11This is what is funny about FOSSies, they seem to think that just because the OS is open source, that everything else will cease to matter.
"Check your data plan. For this to work, you'll need the T-Mobile Total Internet Add On feature, a $29.99 per month option that gives you unlimited data access as well as unlimited T-Mobile Hotspot access. You likely already have this plan if you bought a recent smartphone from T-Mobile."
What makes you think T-Mobile is simply going to allow free tethering because the OS is open source? They will find a way to ***** over customers just like always. - billygreen23, on 11/12/2008, -0/+9Obviously he meant an air card.
- fahrvergnuugen, on 11/12/2008, -0/+8Next thing you know, they'll be charging you long distance fees for visiting websites hosted in Sweden
- scherzox, on 11/12/2008, -0/+8$30 more on top of the $35 I already pay for the unlimited data plan?! Come on. That's way too steep.
- ibeetle, on 11/12/2008, -3/+11So, when every carrier from AT&T to Verizon charges everybody from Blackberry to Motorola for tethering that is O.K. But if Apple is involved it a proprietary ripoff?
- evanfrey, on 11/12/2008, -0/+7Do some research. You can get a free wifi proxy that runs on the iphone. Setup an adhoc network between the iphone and your laptop. Voila, wireless internet tethering without the cap.
- johnomaz, on 11/12/2008, -1/+8dude, its called jailbreak your phone, which is easy, adn download PDAnet application from Cydia. It tethers your iPhone for free, and since your normal data plan is unlimited data, no 5gb cap.
- threemagic, on 11/12/2008, -2/+9He's suggesting the satellite wifi cards are probably cheaper to get wireless access anywhere... the idea of tethering ISN'T to surf through cell towers, it's the ability to surf on your laptop when there is no wireless around. I understand he didn't spell that out, but come on...
- darkism, on 11/12/2008, -2/+9Tethering should be $0 any way you slice it.
- jun2san, on 11/12/2008, -5/+121) ATT leak info about $30/month tethering plan
2) Official announcement that the service is only $20/month
3) ?????
4) Profit! (Suckers!) - sarcasm, on 11/12/2008, -0/+7No, because they are charging for how you move data through your phone and what data you send over your supposedly unlimited internet data connection (though I'm sure the contract defines it as much less than that). I don't have a problem with the 5 GB cap so long as they are not marketing it as unlimited, but what you send over your connection to reach that 5 GB should be up to you. If you want to buy or write an application for your phone that shares its internet connection to a laptop, you should be able to do that without being charged more by ATT. If the carriers had it their way, access to popular web sites would be blocked unless you pay a premium to get access. They would rationalize it by saying those sites cause too much load on their network, which I think is part of the rationalization for charging for tethering.
- theokandroid, on 11/12/2008, -1/+7Or you can do it fo' free.
- Lousansano, on 11/12/2008, -0/+6I'll just continue to use netshare for free
- johnomaz, on 11/12/2008, -0/+6I've been tethering my iPhone to my laptop for a while now. PDAnet on a jailbroken iPhone is free and a big ***** you to both Apple and AT&T.
- lurrker, on 11/12/2008, -1/+7What's the term for this? "Rollover and byte?"
- RodBorn, on 11/12/2008, -2/+8***** AT&T and another locked into ball and chain pricing plan.
- GeneralFault, on 11/12/2008, -1/+7Not when all of the providers collude to create a homogeneous market where the customer has only the choice between multiple bad businesses. In today's society, especially living in the city, having a cell phone is nearly required to maintain the same functionality as the rest of the work force that you are competing with.
- TehDoctor, on 11/12/2008, -1/+7Orrrr.... jailbreak and use an ad-hoc network and an ssh pipe. It's quick and not hard to set up, and then you'll be on the unlimited* data plan you already have.
* Assuming it really is unlimited. I haven't heard anything contrary, but I haven't seen anyone go over 5GB with an iPhone, so I guess it's an unknown. - Ratteler, on 11/12/2008, -1/+6So by sticking with Verizion, you were the "test market" that let them think they could get away with this *****.
Thanks. /s - jjpertusch, on 11/12/2008, -4/+9actually, in this case, not getting sucked into another one of at&t's overpriced services would be = $30/mo.
also, these "priceless" lists were played out last century. the mastercard campaign started in like 1998. its been 10 years man, lets drop it. - jakatak, on 11/12/2008, -2/+7I WILL NOT PAY ONE MORE DIME TO AT&T. The first minute I get to go to another provider, I am gone!
- AndrewMoyer, on 11/12/2008, -1/+6In all of the 12 square miles of the USA that T-Mobile has service, that sounds pretty sweet!
(hyperbole) - jonshipman, on 11/12/2008, -0/+5Hate to break it to you that there's a hack out there for iPhones as well.
- tomarocco, on 11/12/2008, -2/+7Welcome to the 21st century, AT&T iPhone customers. Us Verizon customers have learned to live with this stuff for years now.
- jonshipman, on 11/12/2008, -0/+5T-mo just reveled that there is a cap a couple weeks ago. Albeit 10GB instead of 5, but a cap nonetheless.
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