AT&T Notifies Unauthorized Tetherers to Knock It Off

tether said:
I assume you follow every single, just or unjuse in life?

HUH????? your comment was barely legible. If you pay for 4gb of data, you DO get to use it however you want, because 4gb of data is only available on the tethering plan.

AT&T told you from the start that if you were on an unlimited plan and wanted to tether, you had to switch to the tethering plan. Is that stupid? Yeah. Are they ripping you off? Sure, probably.

But that doesn't mean you're correct in being surprised that they're cracking down on unauthorized tethering. my point stands. they laid out the rules, you knew you were breaking them, now they're enforcing the tethering rule

Two misspells & my comment is "barely legible"? OK??? Will run spell check for you this time. My point is that it is American to stand up for something that isn't right. I (and many others) believe it is not right for any carrier (not just AT&T) to charge you to tether when you already pay for a set amount or unlimited data. If that is what you pay for, that is what you should get regardless of the method. How would you like it if you were on a nationwide 1200 minute calling plan but the carrier in their terms and conditions stated, but....you can only use up to 550 minutes of that for calling east of the Mississippi River. What? That would be a BS policy and I would do anything I could to circumvent a retarded rule like that too. T...
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well tether, you're right. absolutely 100% correct. but dude, bro! you signed up for a data plan with at&t. they laid out the terms of use, and told people if they wanted to tether, they had to add a tethering plan. so step back into reality for a minute, and deal with it like a normal person instead of whining on the internet about how its your data and you can do what you want with it. it's at&t's network, and THEY can do what THEY want with it...get it dude? do you even have at&t or are you just arguing for the the principle of it?

I have T-Mobile & Virgin Mobile. I had AT&T awhile back (thankfully a long while). My sister currently has AT&T and is anxoiusly awaiting the end of her contract so she can move her Iphone Service to Verizon. She has awful coverage in the NW Suburbs of Chicago and says their current customer service is atrocious. Yes it is for the principal. I fear that other carriers may wrongly see AT&T as some kind of rogue trendsetter and follow suit but surely the first to follow suit would be Verizon & hopefully my TMO & VM/Sprint stay the way they are. If all them go to crap, then I pray 225 million strong America Movil builds out a network here in the U.S.

hope your sister knows she will have to buy a new iphone when she switches to verizon.

so basically bro, if you don't like it, switch to a carrier that allows you to tether with unlimited data, or without a tethering plan. as consumers, we have choices. all of the arguments on here against AT&T are childish and miss the point by miles and miles. again, I'm not necessarily agreeing with AT&Ts position, and I am NOT an AT&T fanboy...just speakin da troof! someones got to.

Glad you're not an AT&T Fan! You are right on here too. Anyone who doesn't like this new enforcement should leave AT&T. I just hope Sprint & T-Mobile stay somewhat tether-friendly although even if they take a hard line stance too, with the smart people on sites like xda developers & android or android-like mod-capable phones, not even an ultra tough block on free tethering would ever stick forever. (AT&T included)

I can see very soon, VZW starting to enforce this the same way, then Sprint and TMO. All of these have similar policies, its enforcement. And all charge for it. (for better or worse).

Is it right or wrong, legally they can, but don't like it. I also bet if this was TMO or Sprint doing this, there would be hordes here defending them. Nor would there be several hundred posts over it. Both here and on Engadget.

I think it is an enforcement issue which TMO & Sprint at least don't enforce it. Actually what will change all these phone company lovers here will be when they are using their phones to watch YouTube Videos or Pandora or similar and they get a text message informing them that a tethering fee has been added to their plans because they are obviously tethering using all the bandwidth they are using. I will cry crocodile tears for them when this happens! I will be the first to throw T-Mobile and/or Sprint under the bus if they start aggressive enforcement.

All carriers will follow suit sooner or later their network will strain as ATTs has. The iphone started it all on ATT. I see the carriers position of someone taking advantage of their network. ATT is just trying to catch up with the rise of apps.