Good news everybody! Well, everybody on Telstra’s Windows Phone 7 devices anyway; you’ll be getting Internet Tethering by year’s end. In best Professor Farnsworth fashion, however, there’s a sting in the tail; it looks like you’ll never get Visual Voicemail. More »
The advocacy group Free Press issued a complaint with the FCC yesterday, stating that Verizon is blocking tethering choices on their LTE phones. Verizon has remained cagey on the subject, but if that’s true sparks are gonna fly. More »
Bet you thought you were pretty slick there, using a tethering app to turn your Android phone into a mobile hotspot while sidestepping the additional carrier charges. What, you thought your carrier wouldn’t notice? Well, you’re not, they did, and now the free-mobile-hotspot party is over. More »
We’ve previously reported that the Wi-Fi iPad 2 gained GPS powers when tethered to an iPhone. We were wrong. You’ll need an app like AirLocation to get the iPhone GPS to work with your Wi-Fi iPad. $1.19. [iTunes via Wired]
Vodafone’s Infinite plans were always pretty good value for talk and text, but when it came to data there was a big asterisk that said you couldn’t use the bundled data for tethering. After a bit of backlash, the Telco has decided to change its tune. More »
You think you’re a real smooth criminal, don’t you, using the Cydia app MyWi to tether your jailbroken iPhone free of charge? Well, it looks like your joy ride might be over. AT&T has apparently been sending MyFi users texts telling them to pay up or fall back: More »
If you were agonising between buying a Wi-Fi or 3G iPad 2 because of GPS, this might make the decision easier: it gains the same GPS functionality when tethered to an iPhone. More »
