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RUMOR: AT&T iPhone tethering plan to cost $30 per month with 5GB cap
MacDailyNews —
... like Blackberry users) - AT will automatically turn off your tethering connection if you use too much bandwidth. Of note, the 5GB cap might get sliced for all users, not just iPhone users, in order to accommodate all new tethering plan customers (bandwidth demand). • Expected speeds: GPRS: 30k - dialup speeds / EDGE: 110k - ISDN speeds / 3G: 1000k - slow broadband. • Will be +$30/month, new iPhone plans may be rolled out with tethering rolled in. More details in the full article here .
AT&T iPhone Tethering to Cost $30/month? [Rumor]
Gizmodo —
... plan is identical to that which AT&T; already offers to Blackberry users. They also explain that the connection will simply be cut if you go over 5GB, preventing potentially huge overage charges (BlackBerry users can opt to pay $0.00048/KB for extra bandwidth, which would make sense on the iPhone, too). And at least the first time you begin tethering, the transaction will take place through iTunes. As for a potential launch date, there's no word at this time. [MacBlogz] ...
AT&T to charge iPhone users another $30 to tether and cap at 5Gb
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
According to MacBlogz, AT&T is going to roll out a similar tethering plan for iPhone as it does with its Blackberry customers. Frankly, we don't like tethering. Jailbreak and PDANet says us! Details from MacBlogz:
The reason we haven’t heard or seen anything about it, is because AT&T is being extremely paranoid of how the service will run on their network. “Since I’ve worked here, I’ve never seen them be so worried about legalities,” my colleague explained. Regarding the ...
iPhone tethering package may resemble BlackBerry plan
Infinite Loop —
... , people are ready to pounce on the functionality as soon as they possibly can. While everyone is still waiting, however, a source got in touch with MacBlogz to provide some possible details of the iPhone tethering plan , which just so happens to look a lot like AT&T's BlackBerry tethering plan. AT&T confirmed last week that tethering was coming, but the comment came with little to no detail (such as pricing). This latest rumor certainly fleshes things out, although the details suggest that the iPhone tethering plan will be pretty much the same as AT&T's existing BlackBerry ...
Ars: AT&T to charge $30/month for tethering
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
Filed under: Rumors, iPhone Ars Technica's Justin Berka quotes MacBlogz, which claims a source at AT&T confirmed that tethering for the iPhone will closely resemble the phone-as-modem plans already available for BlackBerry.
The plan will cost at least $30 a month, and the cost will be rolled into a new plan for the iPhone. The source said that the plan will cap data transfer at 5GB, and AT&T will terminate the tethering connection if you go over the limit.
Also mentioned is the connection process: iTunes may be required to ...
Rumor: AT&T to charge $30 per month for tethering
The Apple Core —
... MacBlogs is reporting that according to a source AT&T will charge US$30 per month for iPhone tethering and cap downloads at 5GB per month like they do for Blackberry users. AT&T will reportedly disable tethering if the 5GB bandwidth cap is exceeded. AT&T currently offers Blackberry tethering for an additional $30 per month over a US$30 per month for data (for a total of $60 per month). They also say that you’ll need to make the initial tethering connection through iTunes and that expected speeds are GPRS (30k), EDGE (110k), 3G (1000k). AT&T publicly announced the iPhone ...
iPhone Too Popular for AT&T Tethering?
Mac|Life all RSS Feed —
at&t While AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph De la Vega has officially announced the immanent arrival of an iPhone tethering plan, he hasn't said much more than that. MacBlogz reports that the issue isn't the technology of tethering that's keeping iPhone users from connecting their device to their laptop. Apparently the service hasn't been released do to "problematic issues caused by AT&T's cellular network..." It turns out that even though AT&T offers a tethering plan for Blackberry, it's isn't the Blackberry users who have flooded the AT&T network with over a million new users in ...
More details surface regarding AT&T’s iPhone tethering plans
iPhone Buzz —
... AT&T Mobility CED, Ralph De La Vega, has recently announced the arrival of the tethering plans for the iPhone. We all knew that ...
More details surface regarding AT&T’s iPhone tethering plans
Top iPhone News —
AT&T Mobility CED, Ralph De La Vega, has recently announced the arrival of the tethering plans for the iPhone. We all knew that AT&T has been working with Apple to bring an official tethering plan to iPhone customers, but no previous details have been leaked.
AT&T has always done their best to bring customers what they want in a cellular service, iPhone owners have been asking for a tethering plan for over a year not but AT&T could not deliver because of the network. Ralph De La Vega said, “Regardless of how many billions of dollars ...
Official iPhone Tethering Rumored to Cost $30/month
TheAppleBlog —
[image] A MacBlogz source is claiming that the AT&T’s iPhone tethering their CEO Ralph De La Vega mentioned last week as coming “soon” will roughly add an additional $30 to your plan. It is rumored to offer a 5GB/month allowance with the expected speeds of “GPRS: 30k - dialup speeds, EDGE: 110k - ISDN speeds, 3G: 1000k - slow broadband.” This would match AT&T’s current tethering option for BlackBerry customers and the plan, overall, works out to about $0.006/MB. That doesn’t sound terribly expensive, but for users who were planning to use it for data extensive ...
Rumor watch: AT&T tethering plans may be announced this week
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... for some time now, but we've been told by a trusted source that the long-awaited AT&T iPhone-as-modem tethering plans (preliminary details in MacBlogz' post from November: 5 GB data cap, $30/month supplementary cost) may be ready for prime time during Macworld Expo this week. The tethering announcement might not rise to a keynote-worthy level; it could simply be publicized as a press release during the show. ...
Macworld Expo '09 rumor roundup
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... that tethering between an iPhone and an Apple laptop was imminent. Specifics were sketchy, but MacBlogz suggested that a 5 GB data cap and $30/month supplementary cost is likely. For an additional $30/mo, I'll wait until I find a Wi-Fi hotspot. But I'm a cheapskate. ...
