Look at AT&T, using the new social network Facebook to break news. How cute! The news: rumors of a $55 tethering plan are false. AT&T didn’t reveal, or even hint at, the actual price, so we’re left to speculate for a little while longer.
The announcement on Facebook also went into the wherefores and whatnots of pricing in general. AT&T subsidizes the cost of a phone, yada yada.
Mr. Gruber rightly points out that many international carriers don’t charge extra for tethering, but rather impose a bandwidth cap. If I were an iPhone user—and it’s safe to say I never will be—I think I’d be OK with a reasonable bandwidth cap. I’d rather deal with that than pay hand over first for bandwidth I allegedly already paid for.
it’ll be $15-$25 uncapped.
hopefully AT&T will get around to restructuring their price points.
Yeah it’d be totally cool with a 5GB monthly cap & no extra tethering fee… it’ll never happen tho.
Oh there will be a cap alright. And why should they give us anywhere/anytime Internet access cheaper than their USB/Express card modem service which has a cap.
BTW there is an AT&T iPhone app. now that looks like it helps you track your usage. So no crying when you bust a cap ;)
Always has been,
It’s called a BILL.
They are right, it won’t cost $55/month. It will actually cost $65/month. LOL.
It shouldn’t cost very much (if anything), but we all know AT&T too well for that.
It will be free and won’t work anyway.
That picture is a self-portait of smugness.
It will be $34.99 with a 5GB cap. that’s my guess. typical AT$T, POS company.
In the meantime, 3G users can tether for free, thanks to a TechCrunch article a few days ago.
Enjoy it while it lasts.