AT&T tells customers using unauthorized tethering methods to pay up or stop
Been using an app like MyWi to enable tethering on your jailbroken iPhone? Then there’s a good chance you’ve already received a message like the one above from AT&T, or perhaps an email like the one after the break. By all accounts, the carrier is now cracking down on all unauthorized tethering, and it’s asking folks engaged in such behavior to either pay up for a proper tethering plan or simply stop tethering altogether — if it doesn’t hear anything back for you after sending the message, AT&T says it will automatically enroll you in a DataPro 4GB tethering plan (at a rate of $45 a month). We should note that all the reports we’ve seen so far are from iPhone users, although that certainly doesn’t mean Android users will simply be allowed to slip by unnoticed. Exactly how AT&T is identifying users isn’t clear, however, and we could well just be seeing the beginning of a cat and mouse game as folks try to discover workarounds to go undetected. More on this one as we get it. [Thanks to everyone who sent this in] Continue reading AT&T tells customers using unauthorized tethering methods to pay up or stop AT&T tells customers using unauthorized tethering methods to pay up or stop originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Of course, it’s all about money. I called to find out about costs for tethering on my unlimited plan. I was informed I had to give up my unlimited plan in order to get tethering. I had tethering on my old Nokia smartphone and really resent ATT’s heavy handedness on all of this. I’m paying big bucks and not getting everything? Give me a break!
Delia
March 19, 2011 at 5:00 am