Comments on: Sprint to Ban Tethering on Smartphones Next Year, Other Plans Revealed

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 23:34:52 +0000

I want to sue sprint for Tethering ban, I am for sure spending he money to sue their butts off.

By: George Weller

George Weller — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 04:30:19 +0000

When Sprint sells us on “unlimited data” with the everything plan, they really mean 5GB max. When you go over it is 15 or 25 cents (can’t remember which for sure) per KILOBYTE! Why do they get to care how we use it??

By: SaltyDawg

SaltyDawg — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 04:29:00 +0000

The Evo does NOT have tethering. It does if you pay Sprint $30 per month, but the built in HTC tethering is disabled. Of course, as predicted in the comments of this article, the community has enabled free tethering even though Sprint has attempted to block it.

Make no mistake about it, Sprint attempted, and continues to attempt, to block free tethering- even on the Evo. But the community continues to find ways to enable it.

By: DICK IN

DICK IN — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:39:04 +0000

SO… WILL THIS ACTUALLY HAPPEN?

Its been like 1 year… and the EVO has tethering, and free apps….

ALSO!,

Whats up with the sprint 5g cap on wifi?

Or is that tethering only?

By: Christopher Price

Christopher Price — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:07:58 +0000

For the Motorola Q, you would want to use PDANet for Windows Mobile, or ICSControl.

http://www.junefabrics.com
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=377047

By: SteveHack

SteveHack — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:29:32 +0000

Would this work on an old Motorola Q?

Thanks,

Steve

By: crew

crew — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:06:42 +0000

This is a hilarious thread. Most of what I read is Sprint bashing. I tether whenever I need on Sprint, but I know several associates with similar phones on other carriers that can’t do this at all (read iPhone, for starters). And this leads to comments like “Thank GOD I am NOT a Sprint customer?” Way too funny. And I, too, am thankful you’re not a Sprint customer, that leaves more bandwidth for me.

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By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 05 May 2010 05:47:35 +0000

I’m surprised nobody mentioned the Palm Pre. Originally, Sprint offered it with PAM, but backed out shortly before launch. I didn’t realize it until I had my Pre home, and called for support to get the PAM to work.

No problem though. The free market stepped in, and a developer produced a spectacularly nice tethering program, and sells it cheap ( http://www.mytether.net/ ) It works so well, I’ve bought it twice to help the developer. It turns the Palm Pre into a 5 user MiFi device. I rarely use it, but when I need PAM, I NEED PAM!

It doesn’t take a genius to see that Sprint doesn’t want to include PAM in the (almost) Everything Data Plan because they would rather charge you twice for the same service (by selling you a MiFi and another data plan).

That being said, I will add that I don’t abuse the tethering capability. If I need large data downloads, I go to a WiFi hot-spot. My personal opinion is that if they back out and don’t include PAM (as promised) with the HTC EVO 4G phone, I won’t buy it, and I’ll likely switch to another provider who will include it.

I hope to move to an Android phone summer of ’10, and I’d like to stay with Sprint, if possible, so I hope the HTC EVO 4G comes out as promised with MiFi cabability.