Tethering Deal Between Apple and AT&T Rumored
You’ll remember NetShare, the iPhone tethering app that showed up on the App Store a couple of times before vanishing, seemingly forever. The advantage of a tethering app for users is that they could use their iPhone as a modem for their laptop or PC, in a pinch.
The disadvantage for the carrier is all the additional bandwidth required, quite naturally.
A seemingly Steve Jobs-ish email (meaning terse and noncommittal) in response to a user’s question seems to point to a possible tethering agreement between AT&T and Apple. Currently, the Terms and Conditions for AT&T’s plans seems to include language that specifically forbids tethering (under the Prohibited and Permissible Uses section).
