Comments on: Verizon charge extra for Android tethering, think users are fools http://www.iovene.com/240/ The thoughts of a computer programmer, open source supporter, astrophotographer and free-thinker. Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:08:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Vaughn http://www.iovene.com/240/#comment-106031 Vaughn Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:13:00 +0000 http://www.iovene.com/?p=240#comment-106031 It's no longer 5gb, you can recheck the site to verify, it has been updated. Now it's a more conventional "serious abusers will be warned, or frozen" type scenario (i.e. over 20gb might get you flagged). With tethering though - it's like the Exchange fees you're supposed to pay - it still works, I still have access to my works Exchange server and contact list, even calender and tasks if I pay for a $10 app - but they can't really stop me, because they can't tell what I'm actually connecting too - Sooooo with that given, how, in a real technical sense, are they going to stop me from using tethering in an admitedly overpriced data plan? Cripple Froyo so that it doesn't "unlock" that feature unless you pay? Go ahead, it will just give me an excuse to root the phone. Otherwise, I don't see how they could control tethering at all, much the same way they have no control over me connecting to my Exchange server. Totally with you over the asswipes charging for texting - I just use Meebo, its free. It’s no longer 5gb, you can recheck the site to verify, it has been updated. Now it’s a more conventional “serious abusers will be warned, or frozen” type scenario (i.e. over 20gb might get you flagged).

With tethering though – it’s like the Exchange fees you’re supposed to pay – it still works, I still have access to my works Exchange server and contact list, even calender and tasks if I pay for a $10 app – but they can’t really stop me, because they can’t tell what I’m actually connecting too – Sooooo with that given, how, in a real technical sense, are they going to stop me from using tethering in an admitedly overpriced data plan?

Cripple Froyo so that it doesn’t “unlock” that feature unless you pay? Go ahead, it will just give me an excuse to root the phone. Otherwise, I don’t see how they could control tethering at all, much the same way they have no control over me connecting to my Exchange server.

Totally with you over the asswipes charging for texting – I just use Meebo, its free.

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