Comments on: AT&T Removing Unlimited Data Plans From Unofficial Tethering Users

By: Mr. Sunday

Mr. Sunday — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 04:41:56 +0000

What makes me mad is that they’re going to have the F’in nerve to tell me that if I keep tethering they will auto upgrade me. But even if I stop and use only my phone they’re STILL going to slow my service down after 3gigs. TF?

If they keep BS’in sprint is about to have ALL their customers!

If we have a grandfather plan we should have a grandfather TOS. It didn’t ban tethering, so them adding new ish isn’t that a breech of contract?

By: PunkRockGeek

PunkRockGeek — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:49:38 +0000

I’ve been a loyal AT&T customer paying $100 a month for several years now. They grandfathered me into the unlimited plan, I have my phone jailbroken so I can share data with my iPad. Note, that nearly all data aside from video or siri (higher bandwidth usage file types) use NO MORE DATA, than if you were to run the app on your iPhone.

This is simply AT&T squeezing us for another $20 a month for data we already pay for. It’s price gouging and no one should stand for it. They’ll lose me faster over that $20 increase, than the near idiocy of a $100 per month bill.

The girl that I spoke with about this was reading from a script – that made me pretty confident.

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:51:14 +0000

I got hit by the tethering thing yesterday and made contact with AT&T about it (cussed them out) cause I’m not tethering but being accused for it.. I am jailbroken but only so I don’t have to use the blan background used be default… I have 2 iPads that I pay for data on, and i4 at which I do abuse excess data (200-400 gig per month) on with Netflix and July cause I drive a semi truck. I think they are just attacking the unlimited data abusers

By: John

John — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:55:24 +0000

“Unofficial”? WTH does that mean? In previous articles AT&T has tossed out words like “unauthorized” and “illegal”.
NONE of these words are valid for many tetherers. My TOS(Terms of Service) agreement is from 2005 and there are absolutely NO restrictions on tethering my Iphone with my laptop. I also have not jailbroke my Iphone, but simply refused to update my software to their new and improved (tethering disabling) software and they are pissed. Lying to me on the phone, sending threatening letters. Standby for a class action lawsuit over BREACH OF CONTRACT. I’m sorry for those of you who can only get the new (tethering banned) unlimited contracts, but that doesn’t alleviate AT&T’s responsibility to fulfill their side of my contract, and doesn’t give you the right to attack our existing contracts.

By: iVro

iVro — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 21:14:41 +0000

I switched over the last round of texts. This almost doesn’t even matter since AT&T is issuing bandwidth caps anyway.