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AT&T Removes All Remaining Doubt: No Tethering This Year

Written on October 15, 2009 by Liam Cassidy and 10 people have commented

It seems AT&T is on a quest to cause as much damage as possible to the already flaky reputation it has with its iPhone customers. In an oddly confrontational email to 9to5 Mac, a spokesman for the communications company took issue with one of their recent articles that said AT&T would be delivering tethering services [...]

AT&T Not Ready for Tethering, May Throttle iPhone Data

Written on October 09, 2009 by Liam Cassidy and 14 people have commented

We reported here on Tuesday that AT&T had announced plans to make VoIP services available on its 3G network, great news for iPhone users who previously could only use applications like Skype and Vonage via a Wi-Fi network. So, AT&T sorted out MMS and now it’s sorted out VoIP. That just leaves tethering, right? Now [...]

How-To: Tether Your BlackBerry to Your Mac

Written on June 24, 2009 by Jenny Kortina and 15 people have commented

One of the big, new features of the iPhone is its ability to tether. BlackBerrys have had this ability for a while, so below I have outlined how to tether your BlackBerry with your Mac to use your Internet connection to browse the web with your computer.
Some Things to Note

This tutorial is for Leopard.
I have [...]

iPhone 3G S: Enable Tethering

Written on June 22, 2009 by Bryan Schuetz and 49 people have commented

So you’ve got a brand new iPhone 3G S and you want to know if you can use the AT&T tethering workaround everyone’s been talking about? Yes, yes you can. It’s all remarkably easy. It’s almost like Apple wants us to use this workaround — at least that’s the story I’m telling myself.
The good folks [...]

iPhone OS Beta 5 Now Available, Kills Carrier File Switching

Written on May 07, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 6 people have commented

This week, Apple deviated from their usual biweekly update schedule and released yet another installment of the iPhone OS 3.0 beta. As of last week, the beta has been accompanied by an iTunes 8.2 pre-release build, and an updated version of that accompanies the beta firmware and the SDK. Aside from the single-week interval, the [...]

Official iPhone Tethering Rumored to Cost $30/month

Written on November 13, 2008 by Omar McFarlane and 4 people have commented

A MacBlogz source is claiming that the AT&T’s iPhone tethering their CEO Ralph De La Vega mentioned last week as coming “soon” will roughly add an additional $30 to your plan.
It is rumored to offer a 5GB/month allowance with the expected speeds of “GPRS: 30k – dialup speeds, EDGE: 110k – ISDN speeds, 3G: 1000k [...]

It’s Official: iPhone Tethering Coming to AT&T

Written on November 06, 2008 by Darrell Etherington and 19 people have commented

Many iPhone users will rejoice at the news today from Mobile Crunch that AT&T has officially confirmed the upcoming availability of an official tethering solution from them and Apple. The news comes from AT&T CEO Ralph De La Vega, who, in speaking with Tech Crunch’s Michael Arrington at the Web Summit 2.0 conference, revealed that [...]