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AT&T Cracking Down On Unofficial iPhone Tethering

Posted by Soulskill on from the convenience-charge-for-different-bits dept.

An anonymous reader writes "AT&T is sending warning notifications to jailbroken iPhone users who use unofficial tethering methods like MyWi and PDANet. 'Customers are being notified that their service plans need updating to subscribe to a tethering plan, and that they will be automatically subscribed to a DataPro 4GB package that costs an additional $45 per month if they continue to tether.'"

2 of 513 comments (clear)

  1. Hmmmm... by Drakkenmensch · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Isn't it against regulation to force you into an added-charge service unless you opt out?

  2. Re:USA #1 by Toe,+The · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There is one simple little reason: Americans appear to be willing to pay for it.

    Most US cell phones are free or almost free. The fact that you're getting a free phone in exchange for paying thousands of dollars over two years for service seems to be lost on most consumers here.

    Americans also regularly pay over $100 per month for cable TV... and there are ads on almost every channel (often taking up a full third of every hour of programming!), not to mention pay-per-view channels.

    Indeed, how do Americans fall for this stuff while people in other nations seem to be able to get better deals? Are we really just that dumb?