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Have you heard of AT&T reacting negatively, so far, in any case of unauthorized iPhone tethering?

Asked by cirrina (187points) January 16th, 2009

I’ve been advising people that if you tether you should do two things:
1) stick with light usage (to be a good neighbor, and to avoid rubbing it in AT&T’s face by creating any measurable strain on the network in your immediate area); and
2) understand you’re doing it at your own risk (because it violates the TOS).

But I was recently challenged to come up with any example of actual “risk” so far. I haven’t googled it much, but I’m reaching out to see if you’ve noticed anything.

I think AT&T might start more actively trying to prevent unauthorized tethering once they start offering tethering as a paid option (although it’s not clear how they would do this across the board, given the various tethering solutions people have). What do you think?

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