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Tether Launches HTML5-Based iPhone Tethering Solution

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**** THE POLICE.

(I already have HandyLight, but still cool)
 
fredfnord said:
How 'bout you? Like to go to Canada for a few days, use some data, see what you're charged? Could be in the two-thousand-dollar range. Perhaps you'd like to take the AT&T SIM out and put in another one?
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Get real! "Some data" does not equal $2000?!?

How about $200 for 800 MB, and if it's the end of your billing period they prorate the dollar amount, but NOT the data. And it's $10 per 10 MB overage.

Same price any of the countries that they offer it in. http://www.wireless.att.com/learn/international/roaming/affordable-world-packages.jsp#data

Gary

PS - Run something like Onavo and use about 30-50% less data :)
 
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Will AT&T detect this tethering?
 
zorinlynx said:
At this point, the carriers need Apple more than Apple needs the carriers.

Apple really should give them the finger and allow tethering no matter what. The carriers shouldn't even mind much, since nearly everyone is on a metered data plan.

People tethering == people using more data == going over the limit == MORE MONEY. Are they thick or something?
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Oh you think so? Do you think Apple would sell as many phones for $400 as they do for $200? Because if you believe the numbers run by the experts, thats how much the iPhone would cost if it only got the same size subsidy that most other smartphones get. Sales would drop precipitously worldwide in places that are mostly post paid.

The carriers are the reason Apple is the largest company in the world. Without them, Apple's selling $500 iPhones instead of $700-900 ones. A lot less profit in those.
 
cameronjpu said:
I don't think many people in the States would be impressed if they couldn't travel outside of an area as small as France. Let us know when you can go from France to Amsterdam to Madrid to Vienna and Istanbul without roaming fees.
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Well, the same if you could also travel oversea with a AT&T plan... even in Canada and Mexico without any extra roaming fees.

It's not a matter of country size, it's a matter of carrier fees. Actually, by having a carrier on so much destinations and so much states, it should be even cheaper.
 
fredfnord said:
Heh. Cute. But on the other hand, he can buy a SIM card from whatever country he wants, travel there, put in the SIM card, and get data and voice service without paying exorbitant rates for it.

How 'bout you? Like to go to Canada for a few days, use some data, see what you're charged? Could be in the two-thousand-dollar range. Perhaps you'd like to take the AT&T SIM out and put in another one? Oh, right, no carrier unlocks from AT&T and even the unofficial unlocks don't actually, y'know, work any more.
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Works fine on a Verizon iPhone. ATT won't unlock, but Verizon will.
 
djrod said:
Blame your carriers, I have free tether with my data plan of 10€($13)/month for 500mb of data.
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Blame apple too.My Nokia always allowed tethering over usb, bluetooth or via wifi by 3rd party apps like joikuspot. If apple didn't imformed carriers when the user was sharing access, no one would be charged twice. Currently my phone provides bigger bandwidth (around 2mbps) than my home adsl connection. I use both indistingushly as backups of each other.
 
Pakaku said:
Go into Restrictions in the Settings app, disable the Youtube app. Then all youtube links will open in Safari, and it works much better than the app.
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Exactly what I do. I don't even remember the native youtube app exists and I don't miss it at all… ;)

About tethering:
It's sad that carriers in the U.S. still treat it like a premium feature. In most of the countries where the iPhone is available, you can tether right out of the box, no extra charges, no set-up or anything, you just turn on "Personal Hotspot" and that's it. Many carriers not only allow it but encourage it! After all, if you use more data, you'll probably upgrade your plan and give them more money… On the unlimited ones, they have caps for high usage, so it doesn't hurt them either… Since in the U.S. they also have caps for unlimited, I don't get why they make tethering this big of a deal… :confused:
 
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The only problem might be AT&T throttling your data after 3 or 5GB, whatever it currently is.
 
i don't get it

how is this any different to making your own hot spot that can already be done in iPhones ?
 
Flash dead, all hail HTML 5!:D

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Xtremehkr said:
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The only problem might be AT&T throttling your data after 3 or 5GB, whatever it currently is.
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Going to happen any way so F them. Still nice to know there is a work around.:D

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brdeveloper said:
Blame apple too.My Nokia always allowed tethering over usb, bluetooth or via wifi by 3rd party apps like joikuspot. If apple didn't imformed carriers when the user was sharing access, no one would be charged twice. Currently my phone provides bigger bandwidth (around 2mbps) than my home adsl connection. I use both indistingushly as backups of each other.
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Nokia what is Nokia like a chocolate treat? No one cares that why the carriers still allow it. iPhone users use their iPhone like real smart phones, now can you send some of that Nokia chocolate this way, or is it spoiled from been old. ;)
 
just ordered the new ipad on verizon...and love that they'll allow tethering at no extra cost (nevermind that data is data and i should be allowed to access it and use it however i want). but interested to see how this tethering solution will work...might be useful with my unlimited iphone plan...
 
Think Helpful

EBSkater said:
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Uh, the original tether app streamed data from the device, not the laptop. A wifi only device doesn't supply its own data, so your comment is moronic.
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"Think: Helpful"
 
nanotlj said:
I think it is absolutely absurd for the carriers to double dip for tethering for tiered data plans.
It may be okay to disable it for unlimited plan to avoid abuse. But it just does not make sense for tiered data plans. We simply use what we paid and pay what we used.
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Maybe, but I still think it's a little shady to PAY someone else a yearly fee for what they're calling a service.

I mean, it's one thing to do an emergency tether to answer some emails while out of town, it's another to believe that you're paying one party for for the 'right' to use another party's service differently.

While I believe that anyone on a limited data plan should be allowed to use that data any way they want, paying for this already concedes to the argument that tethering is a service worth paying for.
 
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Haha suck it apple!!
 
AppleMark said:
What?

You cannot afford 0.08 cents a day to use the internet on a laptop whenever you want, already paid for by your iPhone plan?

Really?

Remind me again how much you are paying for your iPhone and plan? :confused:
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I live in the USA where the economic and employment conditions are the worst they have ever been since the Great Depression of the 1930s. At this point, every penny counts.
 
pmz said:
As much as I despise AT&T, lets be accurate.

As of now they don't "charge you twice" for the same data.

They make tethering available on a 5 GB for $50 plan.

They simply disallow it on any lower plan.

Not charging you twice at all. Simply micromanaging how you use your data, therefor forcing you buy more data, even if you need less, to get access to tethering.
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You are not wrong. However, I have the grandfathered unlimited plan. Tethering for me would be a) more expensive and b) charging me more for data I already purchased.
 
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