It was rumored earlier that AT&T and Apple were in discussions over tethering. And at the Web 2.0 Summit, AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph De La Vega indicated in an interview with Michael Arrington that an official, AT&T sanctioned method of tethering (using the iPhone as a 3G modem) is on the coming "soon."There are already some tethering apps for jailbroken phones, such as PDANet, but nothing you can download from the App Store, at least not since NetShare was pulled from the App Store.
It's unclear when AT&T will roll out the tethering service; some point in 2009 is the only vague indication given.
Would that mean that both PDANet (denied from the start) and NetShare would be allowed into the App Store then? And will the tethering service cap usage? If you look at the tethering service for the BlackBerry Bold, for example, it's capped at 5 GB.
Guess we'll have to wait and see.
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Only in the US it seems is this really an issue –"How can we make as much money as we can out of this option?". Here in Europe every phone I've owned for years has been able to be connected to a computer for use as a modem via IrdDA, bluetooth or cable. Being a Mac user has made it a bit more problematic but I've been able to solve it every time. The telcos mad their margins through rather outrageous data download charges....and still do. But I also had the option. As a business traveller I often am in the situation where wifi or net access is not available and depend on using my phone as a last resort to get email, files, etc. via my PowerBook. The intentional hobbling of bluetooth and eliminating the modem option is the only reason I've got a new SonyEricsson phone instead of what I want – an iPhone. My personal opinion is that it is sad that Apple seems to have sold so much of it's soul to the profit motives of itself and a few other large telco's via this tech cave-in, via choosing only single providers in order to minimise competition, etc. Very, very sad for such an innovative and great company. The 1984 ad is very far away these days...
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