AT&T: We’re Working Hard to Bring Tethering to iPhone

The fact is this: Tethering works just fine.

It a matter of how AT&T will charge for it, and how much they will charge for it. Considering that right now, the Iphone does not differentiate between data from the phone and tethered data, AT&T has no way to charge for it, and will not enable it because if it. My old Iphone has a glitch with the hardware, and it has the option to turn tethering on. I have never been charged for it, nor does AT&T even recognize the difference on my bill. The heads of AT&T just want to be able to charge for a service that is natively offered on a device, but is not trackable thru the device, or the network.

Oooh, my, what a hard hitting piece of journalism. Someone sent in an email to AT&T support and got a form letter answer that "we're working on it".

THAT is really newsworthy.

I have emailed AT&T several times about this matter and have yet to recieve a responce. I have had the iphone every since they came out and am so disappointed with them on this. They need to get with the program or make tosters or something else.

Cubbysumo is correct.

Anyone with a jailbroken phone can tell you that tethering works just fine. AT&Thieves has not allowed tethering up to this point for two reasons. The first was already mentioned, but I suspect theres going to be "An App for That". An app would allow them to track now much data was consumed with tethering. The second reason they havent allowed this, is for much the same reason they didnt have MMS working at launch, when the whole rest of the world did. They are (were) worried about how badly it would congest their already strained network. Had that actually invested some money back into the network when they first started selling the iPhone, they most likely would never have been in this mess.

Dont pretend like AT&T is having issues getting tethering up and running when its really network and money issues that are reason they wont open this up.

One of the most ridiculous things about this state of affairs is that AT&T specifically stated that a major reason they weren't yet allowing tethering on the iPhone is that potential network bandwidth issues might detract from the user experience. So what do they do after they state that? They offer MUCH more bandwidth-hungry internet access for iPads! Huh? What? Should people not be angry about that?

If you were lucky enough to NOT upgrade your OS past 3.0 you can tether just fine without jailbreaking the phone. I've been using the tethering feature for nearly 6 months and it works great. Funny how the "other" carriers are offering tethering for free and have been for a while with NO user experience issues. I'm holding out hope that Jobs will come to his senses and put the next Iphone on someone else's network besides AT&T