

TetherMe, available in Cydia.








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RE: What about Android?
By mars2k on 5/9/2011 9:26:46 AM , Rating: 3
Wow! and there are actually people out there that think it's good that ATT bought T-mobile. ATT is the "Great Satan"

RE: What about Android?
By theapparition on 5/9/2011 10:23:15 AM , Rating: 3
Verizon will soon be implementing this. There has already been quite the fuss regarding it, although nothing "official" from Verizon.

Sprint has been able to track tether'ers from day 1, although they haven't done anything about it.

Back to Verizon, the info is that they immediately know if you are tethering. You won't be able to hide it.

Also, they know if you root your phone. Not as clear what they might do with this information. Possibly deny warranty claims.

AT&T sucks, but they are not alone here.

RE: What about Android?
By Solandri on 5/9/2011 12:28:42 PM , Rating: 3

Sprint gained this ability in 2003/2004 shortly after they rolled out 3G. The phone I got at the time (Sanyo MM-9000) was the last phone they made on which they couldn't tell if you were tethering or using the phone's built-in browser. They pulled it off the shelves about a month after it was released for this reason.

The bigger issue though is that if the carrier has a data cap, then they shouldn't care whether or not you tether. It costs them just as much money to transmit 5GB of phone browser data to your phone as it costs them to transmit 5GB of VPN data to your laptop tethered to your phone. 5GB is 5GB. If your cap is 5GB, they shouldn't care whether you use it tethered or not.

This artificial distinction between tethered and untethered dates back to the days when data plans were unlimited. Data consumption while tethered could be a lot higher than when using the phone's browser. So on an unlimited plan, there was good reason to distinguish between tethering or not.

By trying to enforce data caps AND charge people extra for tethering, they are trying to have their cake and eat it too.

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