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Well, I finally got the dreaded email too. I use MyWi to tether only very occasionally (a few hundred mbs a week) and usually consume around 1gb of data a month. Last month I went on vacation, tethered like crazy, and managed to peak at just over 2gb of data. I'm wondering if this spike is why I got flagged. Now for the interesting stuff....

As others have done I called and played dumb with the ATT rep. She was nice, and said she would make a note on my account that I was not tethering. Strangely, she would not admit that it could be mistake and insisted that I "don't tether in the future to avoid charges."

But, she made an interesting remark that I haven't seen posted on this thread. She said, "don't worry because even though the email says it will automatically change your plan it won't actually change. Sounds a little fishy to me....and she made that comment even before she asked me if I had ever tethered or knew what it was. She went on to say that if it did ever get changed I could call back and they could resolve the issue and move me back to my unlimited data plan.

I plan on continuing to tether as others have committed to doing. I will report back with any news of course.
 
I got this link: http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/0...unauthorized-android-tethering-and-may-never/

from https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/12512029/

The first paragraph under "Easy Targets" is their take on how ATT is tracking tethering. I'm not saying it's true or not, just relaying someone's "explanation."

I don't know about MyWi, but I'm 99% sure that tetherme is set up to use the "phone" APN. I know that back when I did it via commcenter hacks + hacked carrier setting files, the APN was deliberately set to "phone"
 
I haven't tethered since Feb with MyWi on iOS 4.1. I upgraded my phone to 4.3 in the beginning of April and did not re-jailbrake my phone. I got the continued to tether message today. My usage is at 500mb so far this month and has not been very high recently.

Anyone know why I got the message?

Can they just say I was still tethering and change my plan from unlimited to the 4gb tethering or will they have to prove it?
 
They will do what ever you allow them to do.

You have to stand on your rights or you loose them.

If you have not jailbroken or tethered then dont back down because they can not prove you did something you did not do, however if you did and they can prove it then they may. But if you dont even make them prove it them they dont have to.

I think a certified letter to the CFO saying if they change your plan to ..... then you will charge them..... would be the first step.

ATT and mostly everyone on this forum will tell you that you are week and have no control of the situation. That is only true if you let it be true, the consumer has many outlets and choices and is the one in control, but only if you excersise your rights.
 
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I called AT&T today after receiving a text stating that they will be 'switching my plan after continuing to tether'--note: I never received an initial warning.

The woman I spoke with told me that the message had been sent in error and should have read "We have noticed you tethering sometime in the past and my plan would be automatically changed if I was detected tethering after May 13th. If I did not tether in the future, she informed me that no changes would be made. I haven't been jailbroken since 4.2 and haven't tethered since last year, so needless to say this doesn't effect me, but I thought I'd post it to add to the collective information.
 
I called AT&T today after receiving a text stating that they will be 'switching my plan after continuing to tether'--note: I never received an initial warning.

The woman I spoke with told me that the message had been sent in error and should have read "We have noticed you tethering sometime in the past and my plan would be automatically changed if I was detected tethering after May 13th. If I did not tether in the future, she informed me that no changes would be made. I haven't been jailbroken since 4.2 and haven't tethered since last year, so needless to say this doesn't effect me, but I thought I'd post it to add to the collective information.

Wow, so AT&T pulled a record like 5 months back
 
I called AT&T today after receiving a text stating that they will be 'switching my plan after continuing to tether'--note: I never received an initial warning.

The woman I spoke with told me that the message had been sent in error and should have read "We have noticed you tethering sometime in the past and my plan would be automatically changed if I was detected tethering after May 13th. If I did not tether in the future, she informed me that no changes would be made. I haven't been jailbroken since 4.2 and haven't tethered since last year, so needless to say this doesn't effect me, but I thought I'd post it to add to the collective information.

I received an e-mail telling me to stop tethering or they would switch my plan. Called, acted dumb, and said if I did it after the 13th I would be charged.

The next day, I got a text saying the same thing ' continually' even though I have not used MyWi in probably 6-9 months.

Time to call again.
 
My wife recently got a text regarding tethering. She uses very little data any given month and she hasn't gone over the usage limit ever. Let alone she hasn't a clue on how to tether
 
I got the text but no e-mail April 3rd. Got my bill this month with no additional charges, it still says i have unlimited.
 
I got the text and a letter in the mail. I am on an enterprise plan, although I have a non-enterprise iphone unlimited data plan. I have used 11 GB data TOTAL over the past 2.5 years (including my older iphone 3G and 4), averaging less than 500 mb per month and only once reached close to 2 GB in one month. I've never jailbroken or tethered and I got these silly notices. On top of that, I have a microcell at home, and > 75% of my data usage is through the microcell, which is basically using my broadband data, not at&t's.

It just shows at&t has no basis for forcing people to switch plans. Most people getting these texts and letters probably have never used tethering at all.
 
So had anyone with pdanet been busted? I'm not ready to pay $25+ a month for internet to tether my iPad or sell it or a 3G model...


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So had anyone with pdanet been busted? I'm not ready to pay $25+ a month for internet to tether my iPad or sell it or a 3G model...


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This person posted this after he switched from MyWi to pdanet.

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got this text this morning after deleting mywi and using pdanet with level 2 usage hide.

sorry for double post. thought this was relavant here.
 
I've been tethering since MyWi was released. I just switched to tether me, because it seems that AT&T reads it differently.... Let's see.:cool:
 
Let us know about Tether Me.

I am still doing fine with MyWi, however,
I only tether for 10 minutes a day just to
do some uploading for my business while
at my day job.

I have also not upgraded to the newest
OS version that has hotspot (I think 4.3)
so perhaps that is why I am still going
undetected.

Also, I am not in contract. AT&T may be
very careful about going after me because
I can easily switch over to Verizon with
their unlimited data plan that will be
ending shortly.
 
I'm seriously starting to think it is how you tether that gets us caught. I am out of contract too and I have 4 iphones on my account.

What I'm trying to say is, I think Mywi and PDAnet displays the tethering in a different fashion to AT&T.... I have nothing to back that up, just everything I've read.
:D
 
Longtime mywi user but switched to tetherme... When everyone is saying use the phone APN, do I need to change the stock TetherMe setup?
Thanks in advance
D
 
I'm seriously starting to think it is how you tether that gets us caught. I am out of contract too and I have 4 iphones on my account.

What I'm trying to say is, I think Mywi and PDAnet displays the tethering in a different fashion to AT&T.... I have nothing to back that up, just everything I've read.
:D

I'm thinking the same. The point is... nobody knows for sure how AT&T is tracking unauthorized tethering. If nobody knows for sure, how can Tether app developers really test their code/solution is 100% undetected by AT&T? There are posts... in several threads... that people received a text/email from AT&T for all available tethering apps (MyWi, TetherMe, and PDAnet), so we could be their guinea pigs if their solution isn't working. I guess it's worth it for some to switch/pay for new tethering apps that aren't 100% proven to be undetected by AT&T.
 

That link sounds like it is talking mostly about MyWi and the brief reference to Tetherme tells me that the writer of that article doesn't understand like most of us.... the way AT&T is seeing tethering......:rolleyes:

I have heard of a few people getting hit with the Text of Dead who use a lot of data and are NOT jailbroken or use a tethering app... all that data would go through the iPhone's normal APN......
 
I used to tether a lot, mostly with my iPad but occasionally with my laptop and stopped for most of April. During the last week I did a quick demo of logmein while my MacBook was tethering from my iPhone using tetherme. Last week I got the text warning. Tetherme doesn't make you any safer :(
 
I used to tether a lot, mostly with my iPad but occasionally with my laptop and stopped for most of April. During the last week I did a quick demo of logmein while my MacBook was tethering from my iPhone using tetherme. Last week I got the text warning. Tetherme doesn't make you any safer :(

UGGGHH thats terrible news.... How much did did you use per month?
 
I got the text and a letter in the mail......I've never jailbroken or tethered....I have a microcell at home...

Another poster mentioned that they called AT&T and they were told there was an error in the system and some people who have microcells got the text message by accident.
 
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