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T-Mobile UK “Full Monty” plan offers true unlimited voice, calls, data, tethering

Chris Davies, Jan 30th 2012 Discuss [0]

T-Mobile UK has announced a new, truly-unlimited plan - The Full Monty - with no "fair-use" restrictions for heavy voice, text and data users. Set to accept new subscribers from February 1, the 24-month agreement also includes unlimited tethering, allowing you to use your phone as a way to get your tablet or laptop online without paying extra or running into caps. Read The Full Story

iTether iPhone covert tethering tool hits App Store [Update: Pulled!]

Chris Davies, Nov 29th 2011 Discuss [6]

Apple has approved a tethering app that allows iPhone users to share their smartphone's data connection via a USB hook-up with their laptop, even if they don't have a tethering plan with their carrier. The app, iTether, has prompted questions over why Apple approved the app in the first place and how long it might last in the App Store, given carriers are unlikely to be impressed at their tethering revenue stream being curtailed. Read The Full Story

Verizon to stop illegal tethering via unofficial apps

Shane McGlaun, Aug 9th 2011 Discuss [29]

A few days back we talked about AT&T moving to force customers that are tethering their smartphones via unofficial apps and hacks to pay more. AT&T went so far as to tell users that they would have their grandfathered unlimited data plans cancelled if they didn’t stop. Verizon is now following AT&T into the battle to stop unofficial tethering. Read The Full Story

AT&T Will Revoke Unlimited Data Plans For Users Of Unauthorized Tethering Apps

Rue Liu, Aug 4th 2011 Discuss [19]

The days of using your jailbroken iPhone as a hotspot for free tethering without consequence will soon end. AT&T has been sending out warnings to customers about unauthorized tethering, threatening to revoke unlimited data plans for those in violation. Read The Full Story

Vodafone axes tethering fees

Chris Davies, Jun 1st 2011 Discuss [3]

Vodafone UK has announced that it is no longer differentiating between on-device and tethered data use, hopefully marking the start of a trend that will cross the Atlantic and be copied by North American carriers. Customers must be on one of a new set of price plans, launching today, though existing subscribers can shift to a new plan with no contract extension, assuming it costs at least the same as they're already paying. Read The Full Story

Did Verizon Kill Android Wireless Tether App?

Shane McGlaun, May 3rd 2011 Discuss [6]

Over the last few weeks, AT&T has been trying to crack down on iPhone users who are using jailbroken devices to tether on the network without paying the extra $25 fee. Users who AT&T determines are using unofficial tethering are getting a text that warns them that they will be charged the $25 monthly fee if they continue to tether automatically. I suspected at the time with AT&T making the move that we would see the carriers start to move against unofficial tethering too. Read The Full Story

AT&T warns unofficial tethering will auto-trigger $25 extra fee

Chris Davies, Apr 27th 2011 Discuss [12]

AT&T obviously isn't relying on either honor or guilt to get people to stop unofficially tethering their phones. Having sent out SMS warnings last month to smartphone users caught tethering without a special data plan that they were flouting the carrier's policies, AT&T has apparently followed up with a second message, reports TiPB, saying they'll be automatically upgrading users to the appropriate package, an extra $45 $25 per month. Read The Full Story

Crackdown on jailbroken iPhone tethering underway at AT&T

Shane McGlaun, Mar 18th 2011 Discuss [24]

AT&T finally got with the times and offered iPhone users official tethering despite the fact that the iPhone and the capability for a long time. AT&T in its infant suck had blocked the feature out of fear of putting its already sketchy networking in many areas under even more pressure. It took the Verizon iPhone getting the tethering feature to finally get AT&T to man up. Read The Full Story

Pouge slips iPhone 4 on AT&T to get tethering on Feb 13

Shane McGlaun, Feb 3rd 2011 Discuss [1]

We mentioned earlier this morning that AT&T was set to finally add tethering to a series of unspecified smartphones on February 13. We can assume and hope that this unspecified devices will include Android smartphones and the iPhone. The iPhone would be a shoe in since the Verizon version has the feature. Read The Full Story

T-Mobile $15 tethering add-on arrives November 14

Chris Davies, Nov 12th 2010 Discuss [2]

T-Mobile USA has announced that their previously-promised Tethering and WiFi Sharing add-on - which allows mobile hotspot functionality for an extra $14.99 per month - will be available from November 14, for those users on "4G Web – Unlimited" $30 monthly Even More plans or "4G Web – Unlimited" $25 Even More Plus plans. Meanwhile, on the same day there will be two new Even More promo plans for individuals and families; full details after the cut. Read The Full Story

Samsung Focus and Omnia 7 Support USB Tethering

Evan Selleck, Nov 11th 2010 Discuss [3]

Here's an interesting development, part of a story that many would have believed closed. If you've been keeping up with Windows Phone 7, and how Microsoft admitted that tethering won't be supported by the mobile platform right off the bat, then the above title should seem pretty confusing. Or exciting. If you managed to get your hands on a Samsung Focus (for AT&T, here in the States), or the Omnia 7 (internationally), and you've been aching to use your device as a 3G modem, you can actually do it. Read The Full Story

Windows Phone 7 Doesn’t Support Tethering, Microsoft Says

Evan Selleck, Sep 24th 2010 Discuss [2]

Despite the fact that Brandon Watson, in an interview on TWiT podcast Windows Weekly, said that Windows Phone 7 would indeed support tethering, and that the usage of the feature would be completely up to the wireless carriers offering the mobile Operating System, it seems that Microsoft has another thing in mind entirely. It looks like it won't be up to the carriers at all, because the system doesn't support it. Read The Full Story