UK man racks up monster bill, Vodafone says don't use your phone as a modem

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bernardino @ Dec 26th 2007 3:08PM

If you have Verizon, just pay an extra $15 a month on top of your $40 unlimited data plan to tether to your laptop. This is actually $5 cheaper than having a laptop card, which could cost $60 a month plus the price of the laptop card.

Same thing with sprint, except it's $15 for the data plan and $40 for the tethering.

AT&T is a bit confusing. You have your $40 unlimited pda plan, which includes 1500 txt messages. If you want to tether to your laptop and don't need the 1500 txt messages, just get a dataconnect plan instead for $60. If you want the txt messages and tethering, it'll be $70. Some AT&T customer reps do not realize you can use the dataconnect plan, normally for laptop cards, with a pda and instead will tell you that you have to sign up for the $70 plan to tether.

All in all, I think its silly to charge extra for tethering. If all you are doing with your dataplan is browsing then why pay more to view it on a larger screen? Mind you, bandwidth intensive activities like p2p downloading or video streaming are prohibited. They should either get rid of the tethering price and lower the data plan price to match sprint's or allow us to do bandwidth intensive activities by paying the tethering fees.

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