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AT&T iPhone data tethering plan to be $55 monthly?

Unless it includes the regular data plan, it's still too much.

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Mobile | by Barb Dybwad | Fri Jun 19, 2009 12:55PM | 1 comment

There's been a bunch of rumour and speculation on this ever since AT&T promised "data tethering is coming," and a new "inside source" puts the monthly price point for the forthcoming iPhone tethering plan at $55. Though it's less than the $70 originally rumoured, unless it includes either the existing phone data plan or SMS/MMS (or ideally, both), it's still too high. John Gruber agrees.

This story around the web:

Trusted sources:
external link AT&T iPhone customers: tethering is… [The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)]
external link Appmodo: Official AT&T iPhone Tethering… [Daring Fireball]
external link Daring Fireball Linked List: Appmodo:… [daringfireball.net]

Latest Tweets about this story:

  • KAMee0h - @VonneFBaby until AT&T stops being a bitch about it, iPhone is already capable of tethering
  • zadr - For those of you awaiting tethering on the iPhone with AT&T, here's a glimpse of what it might look like, from Verizon: http://cld.ly/0b1phc
  • MoneerK - AT&T Working Hard to Deliver iPhone Tethering Soon? | TiPb http://tumblr.com/xus7kmz50
  • LouisTrapani - @windowsmachowto I really wish AT&T would offer tethering with the iPhone and it. Now I doubt they ever will.
  • tedlandau - @bgiese I guess its a question of how sure you are of "never." As to tethering, I'm wondering if AT&T will ever offer it.
  • johnmjones - sitting at the gate charging my laptob & web surfing on my phone. Thanks for that tethering app, Apple/AT&T!!
  • STLCajun - Anyone successfully tethering with their iPhone in the US? Any issues with AT&T? Any tips (non-jailbreak) to pull it off?
  • amichaelberman - @kylecassidy that is, AT&T has never supported tethering on the iPhone... they do on other platforms
  • amichaelberman - @kylecassidy AT&T has never officially supported tethering in US so if you had it working it was a hack and removed by upgrade
  • mikejasonmike - AT&T still mum on iPhone tethering | CPUTER.COM http://surl.name/175r

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Gregory Tammany (11:49 AM on Mon Jun 29, 2009)

Another failed opportunity for AT&T to not be a corporate monster. In today's economics times, it would of been nice to open up this option as an addition to the forced unlimited data plan the Iphone requires. Can they literally suck every last penny out of their customers? With the momentum the iPhone brings to AT&T, this would have been an easy thank you to their new and existing customers who had to sign up for TWO YEARS. These same customers who are consolidating their services they are subscribing to with the intention of surviving this and maybe even feeding their families this week. Hopefully, they'll smarten up, pull their fangs out a little and help their clients survive this nonsense that is thrust upon us by this same thinking.

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