AT&T has finally announced support for iPhone tethering – available when iPhone OS 4 is released.
Along with their announcement today of new wireless data plans, AT&T also detailed its upcoming support for iPhone tethering – only a year behind carriers in 40+ other countries:
Tethering. Smartphone customers “ including iPhone customers “ who choose the DataPro plan have the option to add tethering for an additional $20 per month. Tethering lets customers use their tethering-enabled smartphones as a modem to provide a broadband connection for laptop computers, netbooks or other computing devices. Tethering for iPhones will be available when Apple releases iPhone OS 4 this summer.
So the big tradeoff here is that if you want tethering, you’ll need to give up your current unlimited data plan (which you otherwise have the option to keep grandfathered in) and switch to the new (2GB capped) DataPro plan.
I’ve never felt a great need for tethering up to now, and the only way I’d be interested now is if there is support for tethering the iPad. I don’t see that mentioned though, which leads me to believe it will not be supported. Hope I’m wrong on that, as it would be immensely stupid to support ‘other computing devices’ and not the iPad.
What do you all think of the AT&T tethering offer? Worth paying $20 a month for? And ditching the unlimited data plan?
Via: Gizmodo
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