Tether Says Apple Pulled iTether App Over Carrier Burden

[needfx]

carriers are the culprits of the situation.

when I transferred to a new carrier, I mistakenly forgot to ask about tethering options, resulting to lack of without paying extra money on extra data..., while my previous carrier endorsed such use at no further cost.

result : instead of selling my old iphone 4, I use it as a modem on another carrier and as a notepad/file viewer when talking on the iphone.

talk about overkill...

 

[justperry]

Can someone upload the .dmg tether for mac install file?
Their website is extremely slow and the file won't download.

I have the application on my iPhone, but I wasn't home to download the computer version.

Thank you!

Thank you SO MUCH!
Will download!

You most probably don't need that software on your computer.
I've tethered My laptop more than once through several brands and depends on the situation if you need just a modem script or not.

1 Thether through wifi, just connect to the phones wifi network.

2 Thether through ppp, the things you need are a modem script, which is
not software and you also need the connection settings which are most
of the time provider name, password and telephone number which is
almost always *99#

iThether should sue Apple

 

[mutantteenager]

When you buy into the ios, you leave choice at the door. Apple are pretty shabby in the way the treat customers who pay a premium for a device they supposedly own. Only to restrict the way they use it.

Tether would do well to concentrate on platforms that allow their customers to use their devices how they see fit.

 

[KiwiGoneDutch]

why do I always discover these too late

 

[justperry]

I'm glad it got pulled.

A lot of network congestion just for the sake of being able to cheat the system.

I would rather have a clear network.

If you don't think this would have been a problem, go to San Francisco where bandwidth has been bought to its knees and speeds suck everywhere form people abusing the system

WHAT!!!!

The system abuses the people, the providers make the system and we all know providers overcharge big time in the US for bad infrastructure.

I am in Indonesia now and even here I seem to get better service than in the states, no dropped calls whatsoever.
In Europe it is very very rare we have dropped calls and overall the service is good, can't say thats the case in the states.

 

[5H3PH3RD]

I didn't, I presume this is a US specific thing?

You don't have to pay the carrier to unlock the feature.

 

[murdoc158]

The US carriers need to adapt or GTFO. It's the same thing happening with the RIAA and the movie and music studios. They sat still for so long as technology around them evolved. Rather than embrace this change, they hung on to the old ways while their product was distributed illegally. They seem to finally have come to their senses supporting iTunes, Amazon, Google Music, etc. The cell phone companies need to do the same NOW!

I read a story about a month ago about a small upstart cell provider in the midwest. This provider will give you unlimited mobile data and text for $20/month. All calls are made VOIP, much like a Skype or Google Voice call. You don't pay for minutes, there are no overages, you just pay for data. If they were available in my market, I would be have already signed up. Get rid of minutes and traditional voice calls. Use that freed up bandwidth to strengthen your data bandwidth. This is the future people, and it's time to embrace it going forward.

 

[donnaw]

Specifically what I said. They're huffing and puffing about the deciscion of a company who controls an App Store to pull an app that they control from that store after financially supporting companies (carriers in this case) complained of it's capabilities.

Essentially, you go to a candy store to buy M&Ms. Obviously the candy store is selling these M&Ms and splits profit with Mars candy company in the sense that they bought the M&Ms at one price, and to you another.

You come to find out that the candy store owner decided that his truck drivers were complaining about the M&Ms they had to deliver to the store for whatever reason. The pressure from the drivers is enough, and the store no longer sells M&Ms.

Now tell me, does Mars candy company have any right to be mad at this candy store?



Seriously?

If Mars porposed the candy to the store, produced the candy exclusively for the store and the store agreed to sell it then, yes, Mars has the right to complain. If the drivers didn't like it then they didn't have to buy it.

 

[Diode]

Efficient might not be the right word since I'm not sure what you mean by that. You might be trying to say that the carrier's networks are not "built out" as well as carrier's networks in other countries. Which is pretty much correct when referring to both backhaul and towers.

Efficient is exactly the word I am looking for. The FCC grants each carrier the right to use a given amount of spectrum in the market (Now done through public auctions). This encourages carriers to buy up as much as they can to block others from competing against them, creating a situation where they have X amount of recourses but are not using them to their full potential.

 

[Fandongo]

Does anyone remember the free mobile hotspot commercials?

Sharing with strangers at the airport as they smile because people are using their phone for good in the world (undoubtedly helping that dude avoid a ridiculous airport wifi charge).

Nope. Cash cow.

Lets just gather all the data, and trickle it out to the consumer at staggeringly exponential cost.

Tethering - extra.
Hotspot - even more, and if all of us providers scrap unlimited...
**kick line to "we're in the money"**

Apps that do it for free are a well deserved middle finger to the carriers.

Most of us are users, not abusers.

"the average smartphone user only uses 2xx mb of data!"
You're just proving the glut of people who use it as a ringtone machine.
DON'T use that number to punish people with pathetically low 2gb plans.

Oh, but you can get a 10gb plan for only 3 times as MUCH!!
and only $10 per 60 minutes of Netflix after that!

Bad deal.
They're just so used to making an unstoppable amount of money... I think they underestimate our generations desire to not get ripped off.

They managed to remove tethering apps from the android market as well.
Luckily they can still get it on Amazon or elsewhere.

As for carriers threatening people with a lot of unlimited (grandfathered) data usage, or straight up sending them the bill for tethering (AT&T)...

Something smells funny. And I'm not going to eat it.

 

[Tofaha]

ughh how did i miss this!! i guess i'll wait for a jailbreak and get mywi

 

[super michael]

It's all greed and ************

This tyranny over 3G needs to END. TODAY.

You know In my country were I live, in Gibraltar it cost £30 per month. In my country for internet 1mb, it cost like £35 per month, as for the 8mb, £100.

 

[PatrickCocoa]

Think Bigger

Enough of the "grr, I'm angry!" and start taking action. Buy into another ecosystem.

Mr. Pink is on the right track, but needs to think bigger. The "grr, I'm angry" people need to START THEIR OWN CARRIERS. Everyone who wants the carriers to allow tethering - start your own carrier: 1. Borrow a bunch of money. 2. Build a bunch of cell towers. 3. Allow tethering.

 

[ansabakhan]

You know In my country were I live, in Gibraltar it cost £30 per month. In my country for internet 1mb, it cost like £35 per month, as for the 8mb, £100.

and you still get on forums and waste your bandwidth ?

 

[dexx0008]

my problem with all of this is how they are able to advertise 'unlimited' yet have all the restrictions that go with it which make it anything but unlimited. it is not unlimited data.

imho if you are going to advertise unlimited, you better be able to deliver. If you don't want people using unlimited amount of data, you shouldn't be able to offer it, period. i know people can abuse the system but i think it's a larger problem that the carriers network just can't handle the traffic it is trying to sell.

as the dictionary states:
un·lim·it·ed  [uhn-lim-i-tid] Show IPA
adjective
1. not limited; unrestricted; unconfined: unlimited trade.
2. boundless; infinite; vast: the unlimited skies.
3. without any qualification or exception; unconditional.

just what part of these plans allows them to state it's unlimited?

I'd prefer that the carriers be required to be more like utilities. You just pay for what you use. I know it won't happened unless carriers are forced to as it won't make them enough money.

I hate the double dipping to allow tethering too while i'm bitching.

I should state i was on unlimited, never used much of it since i'm mostly on wifi, I dropped my plan to 200mb/month. not giving them one extra cent.

 

[mark081990]

question: bought the app yesterday before it was pulled and downloaded the software for my mac today + made a user account on tether's site. now i want to know why my iPhone doesn't get a connection when i put the app on?? it goes to "waiting for connection" then "failed" i have the usb plugged in as well.

 

[jazzmsngr]

Don't forget TEXT MESSAGING!

The carriers' goal:

$30 / month for "Data package" for your phone.
$5 / month for "Web access" for your phone.
$2 / month for "email access" for your phone.
$10 / month for "Netflix access" for your phone.
$8 / month for "Pandora access" for your phone.
$5 / month access for "Premium web access" (news sites, sports sites, etc) for your phone.
$5 / month for "Someone might be looking at your screen" mult-user access for your phone.
$1 per MB if you actually download anything.
$5 / month for "convenience fee" to provide you with such great service.
$5 / month "advertising recuperation" fee.
$3 / month "I think that lady over there is trying to get a free peek at your screen" fee.

Want to tether?
$20 / month additional "tethering" access fee.
$20 / month additional "just in case" extra GB limit fee.
$5 per day for any client that actually connects to your phone's tethering program.
$5 / month "IP address access fee".
$60 per GB over the limit fee.

But hey, now you get 80,000 FREE "mobile to mobile" minutes per month, instead of just 50,000 free mobile-to-mobile minutes you use to get (but never used in the first place).

Don't forget our friend Text messaging, you know, since we can now text each other for free, there are not anymore tiered texting plans, so its $20 a month, to SEND TEXT!!! Which is the biggest crime of all! Isn't a text message DATA?

 

[Diode]

Mr. Pink is on the right track, but needs to think bigger. The "grr, I'm angry" people need to START THEIR OWN CARRIERS. Everyone who wants the carriers to allow tethering - start your own carrier: 1. Borrow a bunch of money. 2. Build a bunch of cell towers. 3. Allow tethering.

Only problem is you can't do this without a license from the FCC. Problem is, there are no licenses left thus preventing a new carrier from starting.

 

[whooleytoo]

Only problem is you can't do this without a license from the FCC. Problem is, there are no licenses left thus preventing a new carrier from starting.

Sheesh. Anyone complaining about the FCC, NEED TO START THEIR OWN REGULATORY BODIES.

So it's...
1) Borrow a bunch of money
2) Set up a regulatory body, then fight the FCC in court to stop you being shut down.
3) Borrow a l'il bit more money.
4) Build a bunch of cell towers.
5) Allow tethering.

Easy!

 

[super michael]

and you still get on forums and waste your bandwidth ?

Hmm I don't use 3g or internet on mobile phone, cost so much to use internet. If you download it goes fast the money, I only use internet on my laptop.

The problem is there is only 1 internet company in the country I live so they take advantage.

 

[royboy325]

I bought the app yesterday as a solution to not having to keep my phone jailbroken ... updated to iOS 5 and lost the app ... even after backing it up ... and no luck about it being in the cloud. I'm REALLY REALLY upset. Is there any chance anyone is willing to send over the .IPA file? It should work because iTunes has a record that I've payed for it ... Right? Anyone?

 

[hexonxonx]

I bought the app yesterday as a solution to not having to keep my phone jailbroken ... updated to iOS 5 and lost the app ... even after backing it up ... and no luck about it being in the cloud. I'm REALLY REALLY upset. Is there any chance anyone is willing to send over the .IPA file? It should work because iTunes has a record that I've payed for it ... Right? Anyone?

Installing the app that someone sends you will require you to authorize the computer using their account.

Each app purchased in the iTunes store has the persons account info embedded in the meta data to prevent sharing of apps on unauthorized computers.

You can jailbreak now and install the app from alternate sources.

Next time, transfer purchases FIRST before doing any OS updates. Backing up does not backup apps.

 

[royboy325]

Next time, transfer purchases FIRST before doing any OS updates. Backing up does not backup apps.

thanks for the reply, by the time I got home the app was pulled and I wasn't able to transfer it to my computer ... or so happened with my computer ... i'm definitely kicking myself. aghhhh.

 

[porgie]

It works like a charm

Sorry for anybody who did not get a chance to buy it, pricy, BUT IT WORKS LOKE A CHARM on my office PC and my MacBook Pro.

It connect almost instantly and is fast than I thought, much better than my wi-fi card,

But does any one know if it will never be updated???


Thanks,

 

[besweeeet]

I bought the app yesterday as a solution to not having to keep my phone jailbroken ... updated to iOS 5 and lost the app ... even after backing it up ... and no luck about it being in the cloud. I'm REALLY REALLY upset. Is there any chance anyone is willing to send over the .IPA file? It should work because iTunes has a record that I've payed for it ... Right? Anyone?

It would work if someone sent you their IPA file, but they would have to authorize their iTunes account to your machine or else it wouldn't work. There are alternative ways to get it to work, though. PM me for details.