Tag: TETHERING

Have you been tethering your smartphone without shelling out for AT&T's subscription plan? Your days appear to be numbered. The company has started cracking down on unauthorized tethering, sending out an obnoxious email that tells users to cut it out or they'll be automatically enrolled in a more expensive data plan. It will be interesting to see how this one plays out. It's something AT&T ...

AT&T is making some changes to its data plans, and those amendments should save the vast majority of smartphone customers a few bucks a month. The current $30 flat rate unlimited data plan is getting the ax and being replaced by two new options: a $15 a month DataPlus plan with a 200MB cap, and a $25 DataPro plan with a 2GB limit. The damage done by going over your limit has also been ...

There's not exactly a lot of details to go on here (or any, really), but AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega yesterday confirmed during an interview at the Web 2.0 Summit that an AT&T-approved iPhone tethering option, which will allow you to connect the Apple handset to your computer and use it as a 3G modem, will indeed be available "soon." That lack of detail includes any word on pricing ...