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join:2007-01-24
Sacramento, CA | Expensive =\ So my service with the iPhone would go over 110 bucks a month if I wanted to use it on my laptop. I'll pass.
I guess it is a nice alternative though to paying a separate 60 bucks a month for aircard service. | |
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NOCMan
Verizon Fios User
Premium
join:2004-09-30
Flower Mound, TX | Re: Expensive =\ *jaw hits floor*
They're already scalping you on the data plan and now that. I'll pass too. | |
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adfsf141
@maintech1.com | Isn't Sprint everything plan give you unlimited text and data? Then just get a PDA and you tether all you want.
I have the old SERO ($30/month) and I can tether all I want. | |
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join:2005-01-13
Portland, ME | Re: Expensive =\ I have never come close to 5 GB. You are correct about the TOS too. | |
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My views are my own.
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join:2005-05-20 | It is an unlimited plan.. it just has a 5GB cap on it for abuse. | |
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SPRINTLVR
@cox.net
| Re: Expensive =\ Sounds like my "unlimited pay check" just has a cap on it each month to prevent me from abusing it.
If it's unlimited, then there is no cap, period, end of discussion. If they have abusers, for example: like starbucks hooking these up and allowing multiple people to use it; then they should drop those abusers, but if it's advertised as unlimited, there should be no cap AT ALL. | |
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My views are my own.
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join:2005-05-20 | Re: Expensive =\ said by SPRINTLVR :
... but if it's advertised as unlimited, there should be no cap AT ALL. ... you think?  | |
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NotUnlimited
@comcast.net
| Yes, like my "unlimited paycheck". If I decide to work 80 hours a week and get a bunch of overtime without the approval of my manager I will get paid for 80 hours that week. And the next week I will no longer have a job. Much like the "unlimited" data plan will allow you to download as much as you want, and if you go over 5 months you will find yourself without service the next month. | |
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Dogfather
Premium
join:2007-12-26
Laguna Hills, CA | I have the same 5GB cap... ...with my AT&T DataConnect card plan. I was unaware that any AT&T dataconnect plan was "unlimited". | |
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join:2004-10-12
Las Vegas, NV | Re: I have the same 5GB cap... Because there aren't any... | |
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jmn1207
Premium
join:2000-07-19
Reston, VA | Yikes Sprint charges $15/month for this feature if you have the "Everything Plan". (everything but tethered service)
With identical caps, I would have thought that the prices would be similar with an existing voice/data plan. | |
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| xenophon
join:2007-09-17 | Re: Yikes Yeah, I'm doing it on my Sprint Treo for the normal $15/month data charge. And Sprint's EVDO coverage is about 5x more than ATT. | |
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Wills
join:2001-01-03
Port Charlotte, FL
| Re: Yikes Or you can get software to run on your Windows Mobile phone and tether it for nothing.
I tether my Spint Samsung ACE and don't pay anything extra.
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join:2007-09-17 | Re: Yikes Can do that on Treo too for the normal data charge, not an extra tethering charge. | |
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PolarBear
The bear formerly known as aaron8301
Premium
join:2005-01-03 | WinMo 6 comes with ICS, just like XP. No additional software necessary, and AFAIK no way for your provider to tell the difference if you're tethered or not. | |
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SPRINTLVR
@cox.net | Why would I want to drop my iPhone and buy a new phone just to run WinMob? I could just jailbreak my iphone and bounce off a SSH tunnel, for free. I smell a troll. | |
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join:2003-08-09
Lake Zurich, IL | Re: Yikes Newsflash -- someone who disagrees with you isn't automatically a troll.  | |
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NOVA_Guy
Obama- Commander in Thief
Premium
join:2002-03-05
 ·VOIPo
| If you're using a jailbroken iPhone I would think it might be easier to use PdaNet and just set up an ad-hoc wireless connection for your tethering.
The only disadvantage of this is battery life. Using 3G and WiFi at the same time just kills your battery, so you'd better be plugged in and charging while you're doing it.
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jchambers28
join:2007-05-12
Alma, AR | never I will never get cell phone wireless internet it cost too much for what you get and there is a 5GB cap on the service. Its crazy you pay the bill they tell you how much you can use it FU**k them. | |
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| kevinzak76
join:2001-03-30
Buffalo, NY
| Re: never said by jchambers28  :I will never get cell phone wireless internet it cost too much for what you get and there is a 5GB cap on the service. Its crazy you pay the bill they tell you how much you can use it FU**k them. yeah, fu*k my car too..i pay for gas, then my car only goes 300 miles before i have to pay again.. | |
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@shawcable.net | Re: never VERY poor analogy unless EVERYONE used the same gas tank. | |
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join:2004-11-24
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| said by kevinzak76 :said by jchambers28 :I will never get cell phone wireless internet it cost too much for what you get and there is a 5GB cap on the service. Its crazy you pay the bill they tell you how much you can use it FU**k them. yeah, fu*k my car too..i pay for gas, then my car only goes 300 miles before i have to pay again.. Such an irrelevant analogy, it doesn't have any sort of common ground for argument. Dismissed! | |
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| whiteyonenh
join:2004-08-09
Keene, NH
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| said by jchambers28 :I will never get cell phone wireless internet it cost too much for what you get and there is a 5GB cap on the service. Its crazy you pay the bill they tell you how much you can use it FU**k them. This is different than a limited amount of anytime minutes per month how? | |
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nnaarrnn
join:2004-09-30
Nitro, WV
·Vonage
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·Suddenlink
| Sprint Business Caps don't apply to business account for Sprint. We use EVDO cards for failovers for T-1s, and most of the techs at our company tether with their phones, and we don't incur any extra charges using probably 100+GB total on all 18 lines. (3 data cards, 15 phones) | |
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PolarBear
The bear formerly known as aaron8301
Premium
join:2005-01-03 | Yay for T-mo Unlimited teathering is included with the $20 unlimited data plan I have for my blackberry. Sure, it's only EDGE, but I don't live anywhere near one of AT&T's tiny 3G offerings anyway. | |
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moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD | So funny... People think unlimited tethering on a cell phone will be cheap. 
Come on people, there isn't enough bandwidth to do this. | |
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SilverSurfer
join:2007-08-19
| Way To Go Well, there's a $110/mo. plus the cost of the phone that neither Apple nor AT&T will ever see of my money. But I feel fairly good about the decision since bandwidth is so scarce, I mean, I wouldn't want to deplete such a precious finite resource.
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ninjatutle
Premium
join:2006-01-02
San Ramon, CA
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| Re: Jailbreak that iPhone and install PDAnet Sure you could use PDA net. But don't come here crying when they find out and charge you up the kalamazoo when they find out yer tethering when you aint suppose to be.
This is why I pay the $60 for my ATT HSPDA card. I'm chicken | |
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Stasis
@cox.net
| Hahahahahaha Scam That is hilarious, screw ATT and the iPhone. $60 a month for capped 3G lol. I have had a windows mobile phone for a year before the iPhone came out with a 3G data plan which I can use on my laptop as well with a simple little application. Apple will never let that happen... | |
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jsz0
join:2008-01-23
Jewett City, CT | Re: Hahahahahaha Scam You're breaking your Terms of Service most likely. You can do that with the iPhone too if you wish. | |
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phoneboy3
@shawcable.net | There is ONE major problem with that. I would have to use Winblows Mobile. That is a show stopper for me. | |
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Titus Pullo
I came, I saw, I slept
join:2004-06-26
 ·Embarq
| Figures they'd start the price high to squeeze what they can before the bottom falls out of consumer communications. No if, but when. That giant dropping sound will be iPhone (and others) plans hitting the skids as people look for pay phones  that aren't there. Hate to say I told ya s...
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| beaups
join:2003-08-11
Hilliard, OH | Re: Figures "I told you so" is usually more effective after "it" happens...it hasn't happened yet and there are ZERO signs it ever will, so you may just want to hold off on that one for a bit. | |
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Big Dawg 23
join:2002-03-27
Northfield, MN | And VZW is the bad company??? Everyone says VZW is out to screw the consumer. They have $15 tethering and the same 5GB cap. Normally a PDA(XV6800) has no cap. Flash the rom and you can tether for free and unlimited. | |
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Chaldo
join:2008-03-18
West Bloomfield, MI
| Cancling my cousins laptop card Yea they told him there was never going to be a Teathering for iphone so he got the iphone and a laptop air card.. and Most likely they will cancel the aircard and waive the fee because of that told to him.. If they don't then what the hell he'll keep it, but i'm going to try to cancel it with waiving the fee. | |
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Skippy25
join:2000-09-13
Hazelwood, MO | So....... So data coming from a computer that is tethered to a phone is different than data coming simply from a phone how? | |
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FastiBook
join:2003-01-08
Newtown, PA | WiFi tether? Does it work with wifi too?
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jsz0
join:2008-01-23
Jewett City, CT
·Comcast
| This is more for business, not personal use. These plans aren't really targeted towards individuals who just want to do casual web browsing. They're targeted towards business where $60/month for increased productivity and availability would be considered a no-brainer.
That being said, I always thought tethering was almost always a bad idea. You're burning up your cell phone battery to do it. Using your laptop battery to drive the radio makes more sense since its much higher capacity. The particular Sprint AirCard I have includes its own battery. | |
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bignate
join:2005-12-05
Austin, TX
| just tether your PDA phone for free this is crazy.
all you need is a windows mobile phone and you can tether all you want with the regular data plan. they say you need the tethering plan but they have no way to tell...i have been tethering my tilt and 8525 befor that for 4 years now without a tethering plan.
and if your windows mobile phone doesnt come with a tethering plan built in just go to www.wmwifirouter.com for a $30(one time cost) program that turns you phone into a 802.11g router. | |
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| beaups
join:2003-08-11
Hilliard, OH | Re: just tether your PDA phone for free only problem is that IS against your TOS...so if they disconnect you tomorrow you have no recourse. | |
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Tethered iPhone: $30/Month, 5GB Cap
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Jailbreak that iPhone and install PDAnet