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Re:AT&T aggressively moving against unauthorized tethering by bhousel on Friday March 18, 2011 @05:10PM (#2341986)
But you can't tether with those, right?
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Re:AT&T aggressively moving against unauthorized tethering by LordBodak on Friday March 18, 2011 @05:11PM (#2341992)
That depends on your definition of "can't." Technology-wise, yes, if the phone supports it. Terms of service-wise, no, but that's true of the smartphone plans also, they've just never enforced it before.
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Re:AT&T aggressively moving against unauthorized tethering by bhousel on Friday March 18, 2011 @05:20PM (#2342018)
Right, that's how I'm pointing out that Sprint's approach is different. They just charge all smartphone users an extra $10/month and don't care whether you tether or not. Andriod phones come with the mobile hotspot app preinstalled.

Sprint segments their users as non-smartphone vs smartphone (+$10/mo)

Other carriers segment their users as non-tethering vs tethering (+$50/mo)

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Re:AT&T aggressively moving against unauthorized tethering by LordBodak on Saturday March 19, 2011 @01:34AM (#2343042)
AT&T is actually segmenting both, though.

Non-smartphone $15 Smartphone $25 Smartphone + tethering $45

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