Comments on: Tethering Apps Are Back, Not With T-Mobile

By: Mike michelini

Mike michelini — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 22:00:02 +0000

I am pissed!!!! I just signed a 2 year plan and asked the tmobile sales rep and they assured me I could do it……can I cancel after 5 days now please??????

By: jkrny09*

jkrny09* — Thu, 20 May 2010 16:40:45 +0000

They have every right to stop Android tethering. I would be more pissed if they put a memory limit on tethering. If Apple is allowed to ban certain apps, why cant T-Mobile as well? T-Mobile seems to fully support tethering but just not for Android. I use my blackberry and blackberry manager on my pc to tether.

By: Yadda

Yadda — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:31:46 +0000

The T in T-Mobile is actually for Telekom; they’re part of the German company Deutsche Telekom, housed in Bonn, Germany. But the whole tethering situation DOES suck.

By: Shompol

Shompol — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:20:24 +0000

They can not limit my rights to tether. They can limit bandwidth or maximum time or volume. But how I use it is none of their business, and it shouldn’t be!
Do you have a terms of contract for water in the shower? No, you just pay for water!

By: Tuan

Tuan — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:02:29 +0000

http://blogs.computerworld.com/why_tethering_is_stupid_and_unnecessary

By: Marly

Marly — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:08:16 +0000

I updated my tether app from the market today and I am on Tether-Mobile.

By: Blank

Blank — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:05:24 +0000

shoob: I have T-Mobile, and I’m not “pissed”. You’re paying for the right to use their network. If they want to limit you in any way, it’s their call. And nothing about the plan has ever been “unlimited”, aside from SMS. They may change it in the future, they may not. For all any of us know they have sound reasoning to remove the tethering app from the Market.

By: shoob

shoob — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:43:29 +0000

I’m as much pissed as anyone else who got t-mobile. They make us pay good money 4 the unlimited data. WERE paying 4 it n I don’t understand that y think that they hav the right 2 limit sumthing that we pay 4 and is considered “unlimited”. That’s our money n we should be able 2 use sumtin we PAY 4 any dam time we want 2. They need 2 seriouly change some of those stupid policies.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:02:35 +0000

I think what upsets me the most is that there was a mandatory 5 dollar raise in price to switch from my dash to my g1 and I could tether with the dash within the TOS. I live in an area where we don’t have 3G…it’s all edge so I would be on the same network as I was before. So I ask you what was the 5 dollar price difference for if the service is still the same. BTW, The market still allows me to download updates for Wifi Tether.

By: Abu

Abu — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:21:42 +0000

Google’s carrier specific blocking is also bad for the Android Market. Let’s take user X, who sees an ad for a really cool application they really want. Maybe it is so cool that they even buy an Android phone because of this one application. Imagine their anger once they try to buy the app, and it is not to be found in the Market because Google/their carrier has decided it is not allowed for said carrier. The end result is likely that the user will ditch the whole Android platform, and bitch and moan about it so much that a number of other people will come to the same conclusion.

By: Marcel

Marcel — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:13:47 +0000

I sympathize with your concerns.

Very funny!!! :)

By: robamay

robamay — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:21:37 +0000

I’m with ya, Spencer. I look at it this way:

When I am at home or within range of a reliable and trusted wireless network, I take the burden off T-Mobile by not using their network. And an EDGE network at that. I am really disappointed that 3G has still yet to roll out here in St. Louis, MO.

You would think that TMO would be gracious enough to let me tether my laptop when I am traveling and not able to connect any other way.