T-Mobile offering unlimited tethering ‘this holiday season’ as $15 add-on

This one comes as no surprise , but T-Mobile has announced today that the availability of tethering and WiFi hotspot capabilities for “select smartphones” in its lineup in time for the holidays — and as is often the case with Big Magenta, they’re offering the service at a much more aggressive price point than its larger competitors: $14.99 a month on top of your $30 unlimited data plan buys you unlimited tethering on T-Mobile’s glorious HSPA+ network (and in its non-HSPA+ areas as well, of course). We still don’t know whether this’ll start to roll out on November 3rd as was rumored, but that’d be a nice way to get into the holiday spirit, wouldn’t it? Don’t get us wrong — we’d prefer if they offered it for free as part of your $30 package, but in our post-apocalyptic world of streaming video and incessant browsing on the go, that just wasn’t gonna happen. Separately, T-Mobile is also announcing an alternative to that $30 smartphone data: a new 200MB plan clocking in at $10 on a new two-year deal or $15 a month without a contract extension. As you might imagine, tethering isn’t available with this one — we suspect it’s just an answer to the new fad adopted by AT&T and Verizon of offering a tiny-bucket data plan alongside your regular gluttonous-bucket package. Continue reading T-Mobile offering unlimited tethering ‘this holiday season’ as $15 add-on T-Mobile offering unlimited tethering ‘this holiday season’ as $15 add-on originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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