AT&T: It’s 2010. Do you know where your tethering is?
Remember when AT&T promised to offer iPhone tethering by the end of 2009? Yeah, that was cool.
Yeah, it was.
Tethering is sole reason I’m keeping my iPhone on OS 3.0.1 — Apple fixed the hole in 3.1 that allowed tethering even on AT&T’s network.
I don’t use tethering a lot, but it’s incredibly handy when I do, and gives me the warm fuzzies when I’m out and about with my notebook that I can handle pretty much anything.
I’m betting that even when (should I say if?) AT&T offers tethering, it will be at an exorbitant monthly rate — something that doesn’t fit my rare use of the feature.
I’d hope that AT&T would offer a daily rate for tethering, but it’s a mistake to put “hope” and “AT&T” in the same sentence.
Even though I’m not in the US we have similar problems here in The Netherlands. T-Mobile does not offer or plan to offer tethering for iPhone users. I’m stuck on 3.0.1 for the same reason. Probably not updating until some new features are included in iPhone OS 4.0. Most of the people I know with an iPhone don’t update for the same reason. Since my friend circle of people with an iPhone mainly consists of people (or geeks) who actually use (and love) the tethering feature, this probably isn’t a fair representation of the iPhone users in The Netherlands.
