AT&T Working Hard to Deliver iPhone Tethering Soon?
According to emails sent from AT&T employees to MacDailyNews readers, the network is working hard to enable iPhone tethering as soon as possible. Many of our readers are still waiting patiently to see when AT&T will flip the switch on iPhone tethering and if you contact AT&T the following are the contents of the cookie cutter reply you will receive in your inbox.
“Thank you for your recent email to AT&T. Tethering the iPhone is a priority for us and we are working hard to make it available as soon as possible. As you might imagine, we want to make sure that we deliver a quality customer experience from the start. We don’t have details yet but will be sure to make a news announcement when tethering becomes available. Thanks again for your feedback. We appreciate you taking the time to write.”
We know what you may be thinking but lets give AT&T the benefit of the doubt here and lets pretend we see tethering enabled in the near future, would you prefer to have it implemented right the first time or are you simply sick of waiting and want it enabled now? Or could you care less?
Sound off in the comments below!
[Via MacDailyNews]
| Tweet |
|
|
Leave a Reply
Note: Comments must be civil, respectful, and on-topic. If a comment does not add to the conversation, if it contains spam advertising, or inappropriate language or content, it will be removed. Comments containing links may be held for moderation. Relax, enjoy, and share in the discussion.
One word…”jailbreak”!!!!!!
I’ve had it since the first iPhone came out, its of no hurry to me…
If it’s a priority then they definitely will be charging for the service. Otherwise, why would they be in a hurry to increase the bandwith used by their highest-bandwith users?
Who needs tethering when you have the real Internet on your pocket!!!
“…we want to make sure that we deliver a quality customer experience…”
If that’s the case, prepare to continue waiting, even if they do roll it out.
They couldn’t keep my 3G phone calls connected for more than a minute or two at a time. With full signal, no less. In metro areas, my LaptopConnect service wouldn’t work from 10AM-2PM as the service got busy (but worked fine at other times).
Goodbye, AT&T. I’m finally taking your fanboys’ advice. Rather than complaining and hoping you’ll get your act together, I’ve moved on. Take your ETF and cram it.
Haven’t dropped a call since I switched. I almost forgot how nice it was having a service that works!
AT&T Has 2 Hurry
Could care less. It’s like towing a dead truck around with a car.
It wouldn’t surprise me if Apple is leaning on AT&T to get tethering avaialble in the US after Jobs promised it at the WWDC last year. Otherwise Jobs will have egg on his face if he can’t stand up this year and state they delivered tethering as promised.
Working hard to deliver iPhone tethering soon = A group of execs discussing, “How much should we gouge our customers for?”
A year since tethering was announced and still nothing? Lucky for me I have OS 3.0.1 and benm. AT&T tethering already works. Would be nice to be able to upgrade my OS though.
Could care less. That’s what the 3G iPad is for.
You have to wait for them to upgrade THEIR ENTIRE NETWORK. Once they get their 4G network completely rolled out, and Apple makes 4G iPhones, then AT&T will enable tethering. Of course, only for 4G iPhones.
Personally, I have no need for it so I don’t really much care. I am interested in it coming though so people will talk about something else.
It didn’t take them this long to BUILD THE PHONE.
Honestly, I could care less. I don’t plan on using it. Especially with the additional fee. But it’s still frustrating to see iPhone customers getting f-ed with unreasonable delays – again – for something that shouldn’t be that big of a deal.
Although it’s not that big of a deal for me, I’d like to have it just so I could get online with my laptop when a hotspot wasn’t available. I’d love to jailbreak again but I’m hesitant to do that until they find a non-tethered solution to the new 3GS’.
The biggest problems with what AT&T has had to deal with is the fact that the phone came with neither MMS or tethering from the beginning. Everyone that bitches their phone from 1999 had tethering, had a phone that came with it from the beginning. Steve announced from day 1 the iPhone wouldn’t support MMS it was too dated for him. AT&T isn’t going to complain to apple about adding this stuff to the phone after they started the exclusitivity contract. Apple pushes a button and has a software update and everyone wants AT&T. Who has 3G in 9300 cities to allow it tomorrow when it wasn’t part of the original plan. No other carrier has to deal with the fact that millions of people have the iPhone and complain about their service when there clearly isn’t good service in their area. I see people complain everyday to AT&T about not having 1 bar since the day they bought their phone. Polling in and out of edge and no service just to have the phone. And complain about it every single day when in reality if they didn’t “have” to have the iPhone they would have service with a carrier that actually had coverage in their area.
Isn’t it already implemented right the first time? I don’t jailbreak but I wasn’t aware there is a problem with the jailbreak tether.
but Mark, there is a problem… It’s Free
Don’t get me wrong, I love my iPhones but AT&T and Apple can both go suck wind. I am just tired of Steve’s ego and these blood sucking crooks from AT&T. Tired of the promises, lies and over charge for a service that is less than perfect. Again, I love my phones but I am just getting fed up waiting for stuff that all the other carriers offer for less. Still can’t watch tv, no flash, can’t use the phone as an external drive, lack of Bluetooth, tethering just to name a few. They can all go to hell !!!
Guys please, you’re driving me up the wall!
It’s COULDN’T care less.
“AT&T is working as hard as possible to enable tethering” — you left out the end of that sentence — ” so they can add a $40/month plan add-on that enables tethering”
@CJ:
Both are proper and acceptable.
“Couldn’t care less” is proper when saying that you “could not care any less”. “Could care less” is proper when you’re saying that you “care somewhat, but not that much (or less)”.
Depends on whether or not you care a little, or not at all.
… and we’re not an English class here, anyway.
I’m sick and tired of AT&T.
Here’s the reality as I see it:
AT&T will charge a monthly premium for tethering, guaranteed.
It will not be available for months, regardless of what they say. When available, it will “sorta” work, just the way it “sorta” works for most other phones – slowly and as a last resort if there’s no wifi available.
95% of the people complaining about it don’t need it and would never use it, much less pay extra to have it available. They just like to rant about AT&T. It’s the national pastime for American iPhone users.
AT&T still sucks for not following through on the commitments they made to have it available, regardless of anything above.
has anyone been charged by att for tethering thru a jailbroken iphone?
I care a great deal. This was a massive selling point for the 3gs to me, and it’s been almost a year. I would have kept my 1st gen iPhone and it’s sad edge connection had I known tethering would not be here. Which, sadly, they DO for other phones. This really is class-action worthy, especially after another 2 year contract commitment.
They’ll enable it as soon as the VZ iPhone is announcer.
I agree with Jimmy D, soon as VZ iPhone comes out you will be able to tether with ATT, what other selling point will they use….
I am interested in it coming though so people will talk about something else.
What’s the point in paying $ 20 per month for some worthless internet service which doesn’t offer unlimited data. The only reason why AT&T didn’t offer tethering for FREE (this time around) is because people would see for theirself what they were really trying to do. This is NOT about luring potentual customers away from Verizon … trust me. This is more about luring older AT&T customers away from their “unlimited data” service contracts. Why? Because AT&T knows now that they screwed up by offering unlimited data to begin with. Here, you have all of these Internet Services charging money for “Streaming video,” and AT&T has just sent them a blatent message saying … hey! We are about to put you out of business! It’s our bandwidth that you are trying to profit off of. Why would NEWER Smart phone users want to pay EXTRA for Streaming Video Services when they are already having to pay AT&T extra for the Byte? So what AT&T has basically done is put theirselves into a position to OWN the whole Streaming Video Market. I’ll bet that they would love to own a piece of that Industery and charge customers according to some “MB Tiered Structure” Payment plan. There’s only one thing standing in their way right now … existing customers who have “Unlimited Data Plans.” I was one of the lucky ones. I have the unlimited data plan, and I have no intention of ever giving that plan up. So, what plan do you have?