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Internet Tethering for AT&T Customers to Finally Arrive with iPhone OS 4.0?

Brilliant news...
it has been a good day for apple...many new releases!
Now if they just start the BTS promo and launch the updated MBA...that would be more awesome.
 
Too little, too late. Already switched from the iPhone 3G to the Incredible (dropping my iPhone and breaking the Home button forced my hand). This was by far my biggest gripe with AT&T and the iPhone. I could tether my Sony Ericsson t68i back in 2001, but couldn't tether my iPhone? I'm paying $90+ a month! WTF?
 
AT&T really do suck. The rest of the world has enjoyed tethering for a while now.

If Apple really cared about customer quality - as SJ suggests - then Apple would have dumped AT&T long ago.
 
Interestingly enough, this option has disappeared for me (I supplied the screenshot). Tried to connect to my MacBook Pro VIA USB to see if that would trigger it but to no avail. Weird. :confused:
 
macfan881 said:
I think so to cause every Verizon phone has tethiring option.
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I forget the name of it, but I think you're right. Something like mobile hot spot. Anywho, that would be the bomb for an iPad since I really don't care to give out any more money for Internet connections. The $30 I spend on my iPhone is plenty considering I maybe use 300 MB a month. It's physically possibly, so AT&T needs to match Verizon on this or else risk losing a lot of us.
 
Yay, another chance to pay AT&T more money. :(

Data plan for iPhone. Data plan for iPad. And yet another plan if you want to access data on your laptop via your iPhone.

Imagine if Comcast (or name your cable Internet provider) charged the same way AT&T/Verizon do. You'd pay a separate (full-priced) subscription fee for every home computer you connect to the Internet. You'd also pay a fee to broadcast that Internet connection over a wireless network to your other Internet-ready devices.

Bleh.

I hate wireless carriers.
 
LagunaSol said:
Yay, another chance to pay AT&T more money. :(

Data plan for iPhone. Data plan for iPad. And yet another plan if you want to access data on your laptop via your iPhone.

Imagine if Comcast (or name your cable Internet provider) charged the same way AT&T/Verizon do. You'd pay a separate (full-priced) subscription fee for every home computer you connect to the Internet. You'd also pay a fee to broadcast that Internet connection over a wireless network to your other Internet-ready devices.

Bleh.

I hate wireless carriers.
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Hush..Don't give Comcast any ideas !
 
PsyD4Me said:
Great news for wifi ipad people
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Tethering allows devices such as PCs and Laptops to connect to the internet if you are somewhere without a Wi-Fi Hotspot or Internet at home. You cannot tether a Wi-Fi Only iPad to an iPhone. But you could tether and iPad 3G to a computer, if the OS will allow for it. Sorry to burst anyone's virtual bubble.

But you want a work around? Follow these steps...once tethering is available and it just might work.
1. Tether your iPhone to your laptop/computer.
2. Enable your Wireless card in Ad-Hoc Mode.
3. Enable the ability for connection sharing.
4. Connect your Wi-Fi iPad to your Wireless Ad-Hoc Network.

Note: I cannot test those steps as I do not have an iPad or any other device that has a Wi-Fi card to test my theory.
 
" You cannot tether a Wi-Fi Only iPad to an iPhone"

You're kidding right? The iPad does support Bluetooth. You could tether it just like tethering with a Mac/PC via Bluetooth.
 
rnizlek said:
Nice. This will be a nice savings over the $60 a month I pay them right now for a USB data card.
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You sure about that?

AT&T currently charges $30/mo extra for Tethering on a crackberry. Yes, that's less than $60, but it's more than $0. And that assumes they're going to keep the pricing the same.
 
What are people talking about.

Of course you can/could tether any ipad to an iphone.

I am not sure people understand what tethering is.
 
or...

It could just be that they are adding this type of "help" pop-up for all carriers.

Technically, there are no iPhone-side blocks on tethering in iPhone OS 3.0 for AT&T, it's solely that AT&T's carrier config file says no tethering. (And up to 3.1.1, IIRC, you could load a modified carrier config file for AT&T to allow tethering with *NO* hacking on the iPhone. An iPhone OS (3.1.2?) update just made it so that the iPhone will only install carrier-signed config files, blocking the modified file.

I mean, at the tethering announcement, they announced AT&T as a tethering provider! It's not like Apple has done anything to "hide" it. Just the built-into-the-OS carrier-set block on tethering.

I'm sure that Rodgers customers in Canada will see this, with info appropriate for Rodgers; Orange customers in the UK will see Orange info; etc... It's just that because most iPhone devs are in the U.S., most that see this will see the AT&T version.
 
Won't happen. ATT will still not allow it or will make the iPhones data plan $60 vs $30. Total BS, too little too late, moving on to try the Evo since Sprint has lit up KC in 4G. ATT has been completely useless for me as I travel and it time to send my cash elsewhere. Sprint has a much larger 3G coverage area and if the metro is covered in 4G it may even replace my craptastic cable Internet.

$79.99 for a unlimited 3G/4G plan, unlimited text, data and mobile to any mobile and 450 mins to any landline simply makes ATT and the iPhone look outdated.
 
eastercat said:
Because AT&T is a corporation, not a non-profit group. Corporations are here to make money. They're not here to make you happy.
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Hate to break it to you, but non-profit groups are here to make money as well, they just use their money in a different way - for the betterment of society.

A non-profit organization of any kind wants to bring in and make as much money as possible....if you think otherwise, well I won't go there.
 
pdman said:
" You cannot tether a Wi-Fi Only iPad to an iPhone"

You're kidding right? The iPad does support Bluetooth. You could tether it just like tethering with a Mac/PC via Bluetooth.
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No...I'm not. The device that is tethered to the iPhone has to be able to install modem drivers for the device being used at the modem. As it stands, you cannot do this on the iPhone or iPad. However, Apple could possibly build in the ability to share it's tethering connection via Bluetooth with the iPad if they make the needed services available.

If you have an old phone like a razor or any fairly new phone with Bluetooth, pair it to your computer...in Windows, you'll see the "Device Driver Installation" process running in the lower right and you can click on it to see the process. It will install modem drivers. These modem drivers are needed for your computer to be able to dial the connection to AT&T's network...similar to DSL. It's a semi-high speed connect that is a dial-on-demand service.
 
bossxii said:
Won't happen. ATT will still not allow it or will make the iPhones data plan $60 vs $30. Total BS, too little too late, moving on to try the Evo since Sprint has lit up KC in 4G. ATT has been completely useless for me as I travel and it time to send my cash elsewhere. Sprint has a much larger 3G coverage area and if the metro is covered in 4G it may even replace my craptastic cable Internet.

$79.99 for a unlimited 3G/4G plan, unlimited text, data and mobile to any mobile and 450 mins to any landline simply makes ATT and the iPhone look outdated.
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It doesn't make the iPhone look outdated...just the service provider! By the way, Sprint's 4G isn't true 4G, it is Wi-Max.
 
spydr said:
My guess: unlimited tethering = $30 extra.
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Unlimited tethering for $30...good luck. The laptop connect cards don't have unlimited tethering...they are limited to 5GB as well. It just costs more, because it isn't paired with a Voice and Text plan to offset the costs.
 
QCassidy352 said:
that's nice. Now how about free mobile hotspot a la verizon and the pre plus? First time another provider and handset have made me seriously jealous.
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Well, you've got to do something to distract your customers when they're buying a product that may not exist in 6 months or a year. Web OS seems a risky entry at this point.
 
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