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AT&T to include two free gigabytes of data to tethering plan come Feb. 13th

For the first time in a long time, AT&T has competition for the iPhone and has to offer some incentives to keep its customers coming back. With that in mind, the company announced on Wednesday plans to add 2GB of data usage to its smartphone tethering plan. According to iLounge, current tethering customers will automatically […]

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AT&T revises calling plans, announces tethering for iPhone OS 4.0

AT&T will be transitioning away from unlimited data plans beginning June 7th according to AppleInsider, the company introducing tethering, iPad 3G data plans capped at 2GB per month and slightly lower pricing. The company announced this week that a new data plan for iPhone owners, dubbed “DataPro,” will be offered starting June 7th, providing 2GB […]

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Latest iPhone OS 4.0 beta points toward customizable user dictionary

Yesterday, we mentioned that Apple’s newest beta of its iPhone OS 4.0 operating system included reference to tethering via AT&T. The cool cats at Gizmodo have apparently located a custom dictionary that will allow users to add their own words and unique spellings, and will automatically recommend those words as users type them. The new […]

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iPhone OS 4.0 beta 4 released, incorporates AT&T tethering features

On Tuesday, Apple released the fourth beta of its iPhone OS 4.0 operating system, pushing Apple towards a final release that’s expected to coincide with its WWDC event next month. Per Gizmodo, the new release appears to invoke tethering options for AT&T in the US. iPhone OS 3.0 introduced tethering support in software, but AT&T […]

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AT&T holds back on data tethering for iPhone, cites potential traffic spikes

You’ve wanted data tethering on your iPhone for years now. And AT&T may one day provide this. Per MacRumors, Engadget received a comment from AT&T stating that installing data tethering could create high traffic usage that could hamper network performance: “iPhone tethering has the potential to exponentially increase traffic, and we need to ensure that […]