Finally AT&T today announced the release of data tethering for the iPhone in the US, and in the process they have basically alienated the user they have, and priced the plans to discourage any new users from ever signing up with them. It is not just iPhone planes either, they have basically turfed all of their "unlimited" plans, the ones capped at 5 GB for all smart phones. If Verizon or Sprint get the iPhone this summer, we might hear next week at Apples WWDC keynote, I think AT&T will see a mass exodus of iPhone users as every issue I hear about the iPhone basically relates to AT&T's poor network (dropped calls, lost texts and voice mails).
MacWorld has a good break down of what the changes entail here.
We up here in the "Great White North" have always paid more for less, we had never had an "unlimited" plan for data there has always been a cap, I have the 6 GB one that was "promo only" when the iPhone 3G launched up here and that has included tethering since last summer when iPhone OS 3 came out, and I have yet to ever use 6 GB in a month. Actually I have yet to use 6 GB in almost 2 years of iPhone use. What do you think my chances are of getting a refund for that unused data, probably as good as a "fart in a wind storm" as my dad used to say.
Bottom line, the iPhone is a great phone, it is just saddled with a bad carrier in the US, it will be interesting to see what happens if the iPhone is released to other carriers in the US this year, AT&T may see a dramatic decline in users if that happens.
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