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AT&T to Eventually Offer Tethering in the U.S.
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Wow, so that's, what? $10 a month MORE than their laptop 'DataConnect' plan? On top of your voice plan, and SMS plan? For that matter, it's $10/month more than the 'data and tethering' plan for 'smartphone' users. Is the iPhone a 'really smart phone'? (Not to mention I can add unlimited data to my wife's Sony-Ericsson W760 for $15/month, and it will tether UMTS out of the box over Bluetooth...shhhhh....)
AT&T FTL....the Ultimate LOSS
AT&T sucks so unbelievably bad I can hardly believe it.
Those greedy, nickel and diming basterds LOVE to stick it to iPhone users. I'll bet every single last one of those money-grubbing executives gets a nice fat bonus at the end of the year, despite the recession. They overcharge for shoddy service, shoddy support, and what will probably amount to shoddy tethering ability.
40 dollars?!?!??!!?!?!?!? Quite frankly I'd rather stare at a blank screen than give those morons more of my hard-earned cash.
I, for one, am going to start writing their customer (dis)service department on a regular basis to complain about all the nickel and diming. Who's with me?
AT&T sucks so unbelievably bad I can hardly believe it.
Those greedy, nickel and diming basterds LOVE to stick it to iPhone users. I'll bet every single last one of those money-grubbing executives gets a nice fat bonus at the end of the year, despite the recession. They overcharge for shoddy service, shoddy support, and what will probably amount to shoddy tethering ability.
40 dollars?!?!??!!?!?!?!? Quite frankly I'd rather stare at a blank screen than give those morons more of my hard-earned cash.
I, for one, am going to start writing their customer (dis)service department on a regular basis to complain about all the nickel and diming. Who's with me?
hold on a bit longer.... when att gets tethering, verizon will get the iphone a week later...
That would work for me since in a very heavy month I might use 800 MB. Usually closer to 500 MB.
That would save me $20/month X 2 phones-That is some serious cash over two years.
I wonder if AT$T will eventually bring customer service to the United States.
As it turns out, ATT customer service has to be activated manually and will start seeing some in the near future.
AT&T execs: Step up!!
I, like many others, have been a looong-time customer. With all the $$$ we pay on a monthly basis to AT&T, I think it's about time for this billion dollar corporate to "go above & beyond" to its many customers, specifically the iPhone clients. What a disappointment, I can't wait until the iPhone will be available to other carriers besides AT&T.
I, like many others, have been a looong-time customer. With all the $$$ we pay on a monthly basis to AT&T, I think it's about time for this billion dollar corporate to "go above & beyond" to its many customers, specifically the iPhone clients. What a disappointment, I can't wait until the iPhone will be available to other carriers besides AT&T.
ROFLMAO
The problem is-you can't activate it after 5:00 PM on Saturdays or on any Sunday or Holiday. Tough s*it for you if you loose your phone on the weekend.
Say what you will about T-MO, they have THE BEST CUSTOMER SERVICE by far. I miss that-and their much more reasonable pricing, particularly for add-on services.
+1
Unhappy AT&T customers need to start emailing Apple and the FCC to push for other carriers. The EU has already opened the door to allow competition, why do the policies here in the USA have to suck so bad?
I can only hope the rumors of Verizon turn out to be true.
I like your skepticism. There's no way in HELL that's right. IMO this is a network capacity issue - they don't want to enable either MMS or tethering until adding more capacity to a network already laboring under the strain of 15 million iphone users.
Also, $40/mo for tethering?? Gime me a friggin break. And I'm one of the few who has always defended AT&T - I've had very good coverage and very few dropped calls in two years with them. But $40/month for tethering is flat-out ridiculous.
Apple's to blame, too!
First off, ATT sucks! But, how come nobody is blaming Apple? All carriers want the iPhone. They can negotiate with ATT on these things, but they try to hint that it is all ATT. Apple has a lot of leverage.
First off, ATT sucks! But, how come nobody is blaming Apple? All carriers want the iPhone. They can negotiate with ATT on these things, but they try to hint that it is all ATT. Apple has a lot of leverage.
Let me just bask in the moment as for once it seems Canada offers something the states doesn't when it comes to the iPhone....
And what would that be?
I use Rogers when traveling in Canada (prepaid plan-in Canada at least 30 days a year). And their postpaid data plans are (or should be) criminal.
3G will be built into the next major revision of the MacBook Pros and pending iTablet and therefore tethering will not be an issue in the future. However, a data plan will be required to use this feature on your new laptop and that will cost a monthly fee as well (just like tethering).
I'll pay $40 for tethering as long as I get speeds comparable to cable/DSL and it's truly unlimited.
ATT and tethering
Until recently I had a windows mobile device and data service was $30 for 3G plus $30 per month if I wanted to tether the device to a computer and use it as a modem. So it isn't just iPhone users who suffer ...
There's a clumsy way around this (other than jailbreaking) if you have an old GSM phone hanging around and you can live with "2-1/2G" (GPRS) speeds when tethered. I take my old Nokia 6620, pop the ATT SIM into it, pair it with my Mac over bluetooth and use it as a modem.
Use the "wap.cingular" access point and "wap@cingulargprs.com" as the username. Can't remember the password offhand, but a web search will turn it up readily. Not great, but you get (pokey) data service without paying the extra $30 for tethering.
Until recently I had a windows mobile device and data service was $30 for 3G plus $30 per month if I wanted to tether the device to a computer and use it as a modem. So it isn't just iPhone users who suffer ...
There's a clumsy way around this (other than jailbreaking) if you have an old GSM phone hanging around and you can live with "2-1/2G" (GPRS) speeds when tethered. I take my old Nokia 6620, pop the ATT SIM into it, pair it with my Mac over bluetooth and use it as a modem.
Use the "wap.cingular" access point and "wap@cingulargprs.com" as the username. Can't remember the password offhand, but a web search will turn it up readily. Not great, but you get (pokey) data service without paying the extra $30 for tethering.
Heh, what did you expect... Scatty company, scatty service, already scatty prices... Why the hell would they change if right now millions of rabid fanboys will jump on this opportunity and will pay though the ass for it...
if by "unlimited" you mean 5GB a month, then yeah, its unlimited.
if by "unlimited" you mean 5GB a month, then yeah, its unlimited.
http://www.who-sucks.com/tech/8-reasons-why-att-sucks-beyond-all-belief
and now add what AT&T didn't offer today...
and now add what AT&T didn't offer today...
Can someone PLEASE explain to me what the deal is with the MMS? Why the **** is it such a problem??
My 11 year old cousin's $40 phone can do it right out of the box! Why the hell can't "the world's most advanced phone" do it? Is the delay really necessary? This phone should be able to do this yesterday!
So does anyone know? What is the hold up?!?!?!
My 11 year old cousin's $40 phone can do it right out of the box! Why the hell can't "the world's most advanced phone" do it? Is the delay really necessary? This phone should be able to do this yesterday!
So does anyone know? What is the hold up?!?!?!
