AT&T might be charging me for tethering on my next bill

[hierobryan]

I just checked my AT&T account online. Normally under the "data" link it says I have unlimited data, but now it says nothing about me having unlimited data, instead it says:
U1536: Due to the recent change to your data feature, we are unable to display usage information until after your next billing cycle which begins on 07/17/2009.
Anyone know what this means?

 

[gwerhart0800]

Standard message ...

Whenever you change anything related to the data side, "stupid" AT&T takes a whole month to figure it out!!! I upgraded from a 2G iPhone to a 3GS ... as such, I had to specifically add the 200 SMS message feature to the phone. That is a "data change" event and thus, I get that same message. So, assuming that you did an upgrade or change your messaging plan, it is the standard message from AT&T demonstrating how incredible bad their systems are that they can't handle changes.

 

[bruinsrme]

I just checked my AT&T account online. Normally under the "data" link it says I have unlimited data, but now it says nothing about me having unlimited data, instead it says:
U1536: Due to the recent change to your data feature, we are unable to display usage information until after your next billing cycle which begins on 07/17/2009.
Anyone know what this means?

it is ATT updating your account. It has nothing to do with your tethering and so on.

I had the same thing on my account after upgrading to the 3Gs

 

[macjonny1]

I'm curious how does AT&T know you are tethering? is there some way they can track that?

 

[Excellerator]

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That is the question we are all waiting for. I figure I will wait about a month to see before I start really using it.

 

[Michael CM1]

I get that message about 90 percent of the time when I check my account online. AT&T's craptastic tracking can't keep up with data for some reason. I'm pretty sure every other AT&T customer on here who has checked has seen the same exact message. It has squat to do with tethering.

 

[JayLenochiniMac]

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Another "guilty consience" post at play.

 

[kas23]

As others have said, this is just a standard AT&T we-don't-know-what-the-hell-we're-doing message. Anyways, even if they did try something, just tell them they don't have a tethering plan, so how could you be tethering?

 

[entity]

I think it'd be fairly easy to tell if someones tethering an iPhone. Obviously AT&T logs site visits like any other ISP, if they see you accessing flash based websites, ports from games, P2P, etc. it's a dead giveaway.

Be careful IMO.