Verizon Cracks Down On Jailbreak Tethering

tekgoblin writes "Verizon, like AT&T has now started blocking jailbroken phones from using un-sanctioned tethering apps. Verizon will now require users to be subscribed to a mobile tethering plan to be able to use tethering at all." So which mobile company's actually any good for 3G tethering, voice service aside? My Virgin Mobile MiFi (bought under a plan no longer available) is theoretically unlimited and "only" $40/month, but has had too much downtime for my taste, and atrocious customer service.

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Re:With what staff do they intend to do this?

[Anonymous Psychopath]

In MA, the IBEW and CWA declared a strike against Verizon starting yesterday (Sunday). So, Verizon has very little trained staff on right now, and they want to do things to make their phones seem like they're broken to the end-user. This will turn out well....

I have this idea that union members are never the brains behind any operation.

Re:With what staff do they intend to do this?

[Antisyzygy]

Uhh, no. Verizon wants to do this to double dip into your wallet. They are greedy, and have no government oversight. Government oversight occurred on landlines to prevent things like this, and now for some reason Congress sees a major difference between the way land lines should be regulated, and the way wireless lines should be regulated even though they both are pretty much the same thing and serve similar purposes. Its all a big crock to make as few of people as much money as possible.

Re:How do they tell?

[hairyfeet]

Or here is an even better idea, how about you don't use your cell phone for the damned Internet and instead either use the Wifi which is all over the damned place or wait until you get home?

Everyone is just gonna have to face some cold hard facts, like 1.-the carriers have oversubscribed like mad and frankly their towers can't take it, and 2.-unlike land lines we can't just run bigger pipes.

Hell we may already be royally fucking ourselves by killing off the honey bees with some of the freqs we are already using and yet like greedy children all I hear is "more more more!". I travel plenty across the south and while I can't speak for the rest of the country I can say that down here most of the towers are so damned overloaded by fucking iPhones that bars don't mean shit and one of my fastest growing services is putting in "mini-towers" that plug into your cable or DSL just so people can bypass the tower bullshit when they are at home (because God fricking forbid they should put down the damned iPhone and use a home phone when AT HOME, oh perish the fricking thought).

To use a line from one of the best engineers ever "She just can't take no more!". The towers are overloaded, the phone services are rapidly turning into shit, the cell phone simply wasn't made for everybody and their damned dog to be watching videos and surfing their asses off on iPhones. So why not put down the damned iPhone and just use the fricking Wifi which is actually MADE for that shit, how about that? Hell the iPhone does have Wifi doesn't it? Because one thing I've learned is that iPhone junkies would rather take a baseball bat to the nuts than put that damned thing down. I'd love to see a chart comparing cell service quality before and after iPhone, because I bet the quality level goes to shit like a turd thrown off the Empire state Building when iPhone hit the scene.