Comments on: Rumor: iPhone tether plan to be $55 per month, coming in September

By: kate

kate — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:49:44 +0000

ATT won’t even sell you an Iphone referbished or not without purchasing an IPHONE data plane.
If you buy a refurbised blackberry you don’t have to buy a blackberry plan to buy the phone. I purchased a blackberry bold from them. ATT kept trying to tell me that if I didn’t by the blackberry or their data plan I wouldn’t be able to use the wifi. They were lieing my so may two little tweaks and now I have wifi free where ever they have wifi. ATT just won’t or don’t know what to tell you to turn off. I believe you just turn off data on your phone. If you have a data plan you don’t need wifi anyway. I was that simple.

By: kate

kate — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:41:36 +0000

if you are with T-Mobile you don’t pay for tethering at all if you have the blackberry service plane. T-mobile’s blackberry service is $25. monthly includes tethering.
ATT blackberry service is $30 plus $20 for tethering. ATT really needs to get on the right page with pricing or they will start losing people to T-moble.
It you travel T-moble is more internationally friendly. My husband is on a bussness trip to south africa and Att doesn’t even have a data plane that covers that part of the world. It covers the (UAE) United Arab Emerits but not S Africa. Thank goodness he has T-moble otherwise the per phone call charge are like $25 per min it’s crazy. You’d have to be independently weathy to make a call with ATT.

By: JCOoko

JCOoko — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:02:49 +0000

Hello I’m very new at this whole iPhone thing and I love it this technoigy is awsome but if AT&T is going to charge 55$ for tethering then we or I am better off paying for mifi 15 or 20$ I’m on bord thanks

By: TJ Leeland

TJ Leeland — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:56:08 +0000

I wouldn’t pay a dime. It’s hard enough to get a solid 3G signal where I live and tend to travel, which stresses me out as it is. If I paid to teether and found myself on Edge all the time, I might have a stroke.

By: Sheldon McGee

Sheldon McGee — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:33:44 +0000

The funny thing is that when you add tethering to a Blackberry (even on edge) you end up adding a cap of 5GB instead of it being unlimited. So you pay more and get a cap.

I think the tethering option will come in handy when traveling . . something you can turn on for a few weeks and then turn off. The mandatory $30 data plan is one of the reasons I still don’t have an iPhone! No other phone (subsidy or not) has a mandatory data plan.

By: Claud

Claud — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:06:14 +0000

It shouldn’t cost a dime extra. It won’t cost them a dime (except to police and make sure people are paying them) and you’re already paying them for unlimited data.

By: pocowok

pocowok — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:33:14 +0000

The true is: There will always be ways to get around it, given the fact there are so many smart people owning iPhone! AT & T is no match in this regard.

By: Griffon

Griffon — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:27:26 +0000

Mmmm

$30 base
then $25 will be the add on charge cause you know you might use that precious data they are already billing you fo.
$55
I’m sure they will spin it as a $5 discount since they wanted to charge you 59.99 but thought we might complain less this way.

I swear if the telcomes ran the world we would still be communicating with smoke signals at $10.99 a puff.

By: sevatt

sevatt — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:05:33 +0000

$30, $45, or $60 to add tethering to an “unlimited” data plan seems outrageous. But I guess if you can then drop a few $12 / day WiFI charges from your monthly bill it’s not too bad.

By: mba

mba — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:15:29 +0000

AT&T are hustlers. They are double charging people. What is the definition of “unlimited data plan?” Cell phone carriers are continuing with their shady ways.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:27:28 +0000

I’d pay for $50 with Data Included. $30 for Data, $20 for Tethering.

By: metric

metric — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:24:37 +0000

Haha apple sucks donkey balls.

By: jon-jon

jon-jon — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:25:49 +0000

if you’ve already activated the tethering through hack how can they tell if you are using tethering or not?

By: Wilfried Schobeiri

Wilfried Schobeiri — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:18:53 +0000

You’d have to pay me to use AT&T for “broadband” tethering. I won’t trust a provider who regularly drops calls before a first word is even spoken.

By: NeXToPhile

NeXToPhile — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:14:20 +0000

to Pile on…

$30 a month is painful… At least a $10 monthly iPhone tax.

$40-55 a month for ‘unlimited data+tethering’ actually hurts, but is a minor uptick in the twinge every month, especially when my MacBook is sucking copious amounts of bandwidth….
(and for me, my city WiFi subscription would end… saving me $20 spent on almost useless bandwidth (the WiFi is solid, but the upstream interconnects to the net are saturated, and useless… it’s as if the entire town of Minneapolis is sucking through a fractional T1)

$75-85/month… Outright Assault… Again, it’s beating up on the ‘first-mover’ instead of a offering a ‘Grand Opening Sale’ (if 20million to spend 15 a month, or 1 million to spend 55 a month… and only about 5 million use it ‘to capacity’ either way… which is the better economic model?)

If ATT could offer Apple quality, I’d consider it… but to be honest, their current 3G isn’t even better than other telcos… let alone worth a $50 a month premium for ‘full [FAILED] functionality’

By: noneman

noneman — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:30:47 +0000

True, it doesn’t include tethering. But, I believe that’s a far less expensive add-on than this price range. Thing is, for $69.99 I get unlimited texting, 450 minutes, and speedy EVDO reva, on a better network.
Also, I talked to retentions. They’re willing to give me pick-3 and 900 minutes for the same price. I also can get a 25% corp discount with Sprint.
I do like the iphone though, and I already use pdanet to tether.
Just not happy about At&t’s price gouging.

By: blah

blah — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:45:07 +0000

Just so I am clear, this is in *addition* to the $30 iPhone data plan? As in it’ll be $75/month for Data+tethering?

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:42:12 +0000

I don’t believe Sprint’s everything plan includes tethering, so I’m not sure what you’d be gaining here unless you’re after the unlimited voice…

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:30:59 +0000

I wish someone at AT&T would explain to me the definition of “unlimited data plan”

By: wtf

wtf — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:30:03 +0000

September huh? Well at least they gave us a free 90 day trial…

By: RT

RT — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:24:44 +0000

That’s nice. Now, where’s that MMS?

By: Ziggy Tek

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:14:10 +0000

Hopefully it’ll cost the same as other smartphone plans, which is around $30 but knowing AT&T, expect to pay a little more. They love squeezing everything out of iPhone customers. http://ziggytek.com/

By: Dana

Dana — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:00:26 +0000

i have it for free right now, I wonder how they will/or when they will turn it off?

By: Bernie E.

Bernie E. — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:57:51 +0000

I hope both people who decide to use the plan enjoy it.

By: Cory

Cory — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:50:09 +0000

Why would the iPhone tethering plan cost more than AT&T’s normal smart phone tethering?

Everyone seems to think the iPhone has some special pricing plan, but it doesn’t. AT&T charges $30 for data and an extra $30 for tethering on a number of phones. I expect the iPhone tethering cost to be the same.