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Questions for those that received TETHERING notice from AT&T

Jimmy Guphanti said:
I called them and told them that I have no interest in the AT&T Tethering service, do not want to be billed for it, and have no use for it. I also reminded them that I have 6 lines all with a data plan, and that my contract is up in 1 month, and dependent upon whether or not they decide to impose fees for services I do not use* without my consent, I may or may not decide to see what Verizon is offering.



*I use MyWi not the tethering that is in settings
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That's still tethering. Even though you say that you don't use tethering, by using MyWi, you're still tethering.

Why use it if you have no use for tethering?

Henry
 
Yeah, and you can keep calling up pretending to be dumb but they don't care. They say they see the activity on your account (and duh, they do).

They'll switch you if you keep it up. I thought I was invincible too. :)
 
Bawstun said:
Yeah, and you can keep calling up pretending to be dumb but they don't care. They say they see the activity on your account (and duh, they do).
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Actually, we've had no definitive proof that they can. We've had a lot of discussion and anecdotal evidence that makes it seem like they must have visibility (and it's certainly technically possible) but we don't know for sure that packet level detection is the driver for the notices.

For every person I know personally that's received notice, I can click off 10 that have not. 10 that are 3-4 Gb/month unlimited data users with any and all of the JB tethering solutions.

It's one thing to have the technology to do the network sniffing necessary to detect tethering. It's another thing all together to fund and staff the people and infrastructure to collect and analyze all that data. It's the same reason so many companies can't really stay on top of their network traffic to monitor usage and do threat detection.
 
Bawstun said:
Ok, who's the idiot who said "hogwash" to me about my post of being switched? Yes, they did switch me.

- I was grandfathered into unlimited data.
- I had a jailbroken iPhone 4.
- I installed a tethering app from Cydia and started using it.

However I am a light user of the phone in general, BEFORE the tethering, and even with the tethering my usage on "unlimited" data was never about 5GB, ever.

It didn't matter - even when I was averaging 3-4GB's max, I got a notice from AT&T about tethering via text message. I called them about it, AND emailed them about it via their website almost immediately when I got the email. They got back to me and said they understood but that if it happens again it will trigger a second warning and then would be permanent.

Well months and months went by, no second message, and I didn't stop tethering. One month, during one of my lowest averages out of them all, I got the second warning. The next billing cycle I WAS switched over to the $15 more expensive plan. I changed it and took myself back off of it, but they did switch me and I was unable to get unlimited back.

3 billing cycles after that when I was calling in to get my account # so I could give it to the customer service lady at Sprint (who was trying to port my number) they reminded me again what tethering was (LMAO) and asked me if I had already been made aware what it was (this was MONTHS after they REMOVED ME from unlimited data! Trying to explain it to me!) I laughed and said yes yes I know thank you. Just want my account #. Asked if there was anything else they could do I said nope, I joined Sprint, and now I'll never pay my last month's bill or early termination to AT&T! Thanks for nothing, jerkfaces!
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The only case in the World. That's still weird. :cool:
 
You guys crack me up. Most of the complaints are about AT&T switching your plan when you actually ARE tethering! I guess I fail to see where you have a right to complain? Whether you tether 5MB or 5GB, you're still tethering, which is against AT&T's policies on the unlimited data plan, period.

Whether you AGREE with AT&Ts fee structure for tethering usage is not relevant in your argument.
 
WilliamG said:
You guys crack me up. Most of the complaints are about AT&T switching your plan when you actually ARE tethering! I guess I fail to see where you have a right to complain? Whether you tether 5MB or 5GB, you're still tethering, which is against AT&T's policies on the unlimited data plan, period.

Whether you AGREE with AT&Ts fee structure for tethering usage is not relevant in your argument.
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thats really not the point

people who are grandfathered in with unlimited plans are losing their unlimited plans + getting charged $15 more a month for less data

AT&T is simply being a bully. AT&T should stop tethering on their end. If they can detect tethering vs phone use then they should be able to close that connection
 
Shenaniganz08 said:
thats really not the point

people who are grandfathered in with unlimited plans are losing their unlimited plans + getting charged $15 more a month for less data

AT&T is simply being a bully. AT&T should stop tethering on their end. If they can detect tethering vs phone use then they should be able to close that connection
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That's like saying you should have to lock your doors from keep from getting robbed. Robbers know the shouldn't be robbing, like speeders know they shouldn't be speeding and if you know you're not suppose to be tethering maybe you shouldn't be tethering. Even better don't complain because you get caught. It's like complaining because you got pulled over for speeding. Just because your vehicle is capable of going faster then the speed limit doesn't doesn't make it OK to speed.
 
TMar said:
That's like saying you should have to lock your doors from keep from getting robbed. Robbers know the shouldn't be robbing, like speeders know they shouldn't be speeding and if you know you're not suppose to be tethering maybe you shouldn't be tethering. Even better don't complain because you get caught. It's like complaining because you got pulled over for speeding. Just because your vehicle is capable of going faster then the speed limit doesn't doesn't make it OK to speed.
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This, complaining when your busted is just silly.
 
I'm sure most people wouldn't mind paying a "tethering fee" but I'm definitely not going to give up my unlimited data to do so, and I'm sure that's where the majority of the "complaints" are coming from.
 
Ios 4.2.1 Jailbreak
MyWi
Min about 1 GIG. Max about 2.1 GIG per month.

Got it a few days ago.
 
So I was kinda sorta right last year

So... I'm just checking up on this thread that I responded to last year. Much has changed and it looks like ATT has followed through with their threats.

How many past jailbreak tethering users with unlimited plans are left now? :D I just have this to say to the users that boldly continue to tether with their old unlimited plan.. you're being silly.

Unlimited users unite! Whoop positivism field digit dispel bsjenfjf fj qqerewhdh :eek:

K I'm done.
 
I am tethering with AT&Ts original unlimited plan. I don't know if it changed.

I don't tether for more than 15-20 minutes at a time and I stay under 2GB a month.
 
Still on my unlimited plan and been tethering since day 1.

Just upgraded to a 4S on November 30th, so haven't tethered since then (~45 days), but will be back on mywi as soon as an A5 JB is released.

Have never received a notice from ATT, always tethered using MyWi.

Tether a few times a week to my macbook and ipad as needed when away from wifi. Use anywhere from 3-6gb per month between tethering and my phone.
 
Holy sh**

Wow I have been in the dark about this problem.

I made an acc. just for this

I had a JB Iphone 3G for a long time, didn't even know about tethering about halfway through 2011 I installed PDAnet and tethered via USB pretty Heavily I might say.

eventually I got that first warning message, I was a little curious damn well knowing i've been tethering but thought nothing of it.

I tethered heavily after that, for a few months but eventually unjailbroke my phone due to the iphone being incredibly slow.

today I just re-jailbroke my iphone 3G on 4.2.1 I've even been using it to tether to my xbox (LOL).

I have a few days until my billing cycle ends, and I checked my plan because I didn't realize they sent followup emails, and I am not the account holder to check if I was switched, I was not.

Furthermore I use a HUGE amount of data anyway ( tons of mobile youtube videos facebook etc.)

- I did this when my Iphone wasn't jail broken, and received no messages.

Now I have both PDAnet and MyWI (4.0 I believe) installed and have used both.

So now my question is am I lucky? or have they just not slammed me yet?
 
Question!

has anyone who's had their plan changed by AT&T to a tethering plan, had their plan changed back by complaining?

I was advised today that my data plan WILL be changed on my next billing cycle...any chance I can convince them not to change it?
 
iphonesrq said:
Question!

has anyone who's had their plan changed by AT&T to a tethering plan, had their plan changed back by complaining?

I was advised today that my data plan WILL be changed on my next billing cycle...any chance I can convince them not to change it?
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What data plan do you have?
 
iphonesrq said:
unlimited, now they gave me a 3gb plan
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I haven't heard of anyone successfully petitioning to have their data plan restored to unlimited. But this just means I haven't...someone may know of someone.

If they provided a warning about stopping your tethering, you should have heeded it.

I admit I do tether on very RARE occasion when I absolutely need to, and I wouldn't want to lose my unlimited. I fear though that once an LTE iPhone is released that AT&T will make us on the unlimited (3G) move to a limited LTE plan. :(

You won't lose anything by complaining...and you won't gain anything by not complaining. Your choice.
 
zaxdude said:
I admit I do tether on very RARE occasion when I absolutely need to, and I wouldn't want to lose my unlimited. I fear though that once an LTE iPhone is released that AT&T will make us on the unlimited (3G) move to a limited LTE plan. :(
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Unlimited isn't really unlimited anymore though since they throttle after 2gb of data.

If you want to tether you might as well tether until they switch you to the 5gb tethering plan -> go online to myatt and change your plan to the 3gb plan and continue tethering until they change it again to 5gb and then you go online and change it back again to 3gb.

Rinse, lather, repeat...
 
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