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Re:AT&T Cracking Down on Free Tethering via Jailbroken iPhones by vlisivka on Friday March 18, 2011 @07:54AM (#2340096)
It is same in many other countries too, just because business phones are used much more often. It also hard to reuse such phone number, which is listed in many places: it will be "hot" for years.

Now, it is time to validate your home landline phone. Are you really doing no business over it? ;-)

Re:AT&T Cracking Down on Free Tethering via Jailbroken iPhones by raganwald on Friday March 18, 2011 @09:30AM (#2340297)
I suggest that the cost to provide the service is either exactly the same thanks to amortization of equipment or only marginally higher for a small business with a single line.

Everything else is just the way they create price discrimination and exploit the customers' perception of value, much the same way that Microsoft have sixty-three jillion versions of Windows.