Apple and AT&T working on official iPhone tethering plan

Apple pretty quickly dragged the iPhone tethering app back behind the App Store shed, pressed a muzzle to its temple and pulled the trigger until the barrels went 'click, click.' Predictable, really. But do Apple and AT&T have any plans to offer tethering to their iPhone customers? After all, they already offer the service to their Blackberry customers? If not, where's the hold up: Apple or AT&T?

An annoyed Gizmodo reader sent Steve Jobs an email, asking what the deal was. Jobs' response was curt and to the point: "We agree [with all of your points] and are discussing it with ATT."

My guess is AT&T isn't going to sneeze at an extra $30 or so a month to charge their tethered iPhone customers, but AT&T is having enough of a headache keeping their 3G smooth without having to deal with Joe Poopsock's iPhone-tethered World of Warcraft raids. When the 3G issues for regular iPhone customers are fixed, they'll turn their attention to tethering.

Rumor: Apple and AT&T developing iPhone tethering plan [Gizmodo]

[#1 posted by mesh , August 29, 2008 3:38 PM]

Having read both your article and the one you link to as source, I still haven't got the faintest idea what "tethering" means in this context.

[#2 posted by Caroline , August 29, 2008 3:59 PM]

Mesh, it means being able to use your phone's data plan to connect your laptop to the internet.