Tethering Apps Are Back, Not With T-Mobile

Spencer Gardner
16 years ago

tether Well folks, it’s here. We thought Google would permanently deem the G1’s tethering abilities to be innocent due to its opensourceness and free-reign policy. Times have changed, however, and now it seems as though Google has hit their first “Oops! Not everything can be accepted!” roadblock. Recently, the Andwebz have been inundated by news that Google has blacklisted the tethering apps available in the Market. Following this news, Google has now restored the tethering apps to the worldwide Market – that is – except for those of us in the “land of the free”. Yes, you guessed it: T-Mobile isn’t digging the whole tethering game.

Is anyone feeling betrayed, right now? Just me? Certainly I never expected the tethering policies of a carrier to change simply because of a new OS. Maybe a little change would be nice, though. There are a couple of reasons I feel personally betrayed. The first is the fact that when I joined T-Mobile’s bandwagon, I thought that the T in it’s name stood for Tether, which makes perfect sense. I mean, who wouldn’t want to join a carrier that had hardware from HTC, software from Google, and was named Tether-Mobile? Reallyseriously?

Secondly, Tether-Mobile needs to realize that I am legitimately pissed right now. Me personally. And while I’m at it, I was talking to this Tether-Mobile rep yesterday about a billing issue and she really, really bugged me! Come on T-Mobile! I thought this was ALL ABOUT THE PEOPLE. WHO’S WITH ME!? GRAB YOUR PITCH FORKS HEADPHONE JACK ADAPTERS AND LET US MAKE WAR!

[Editor’s note: Phandroid.com does not condone any physical actions against the supposed Tether-Mobile party. However, Phandroid.com does fully endorse any and all complaints that can be filed to aforementioned party.]

[Editor’s note: Hehe, and the editor didn’t even write this stuff. I hacked the system, baby! I am writing this on my own! Ooh, and speaking of hacking…]

[Real Editor’s Note: Spencer has since been fired for hacking the system. Hehe jk. Love, Rob]