Geek Posted August 4, 2011 Posted August 4, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/att-tethering-sms.jpg" alt="AT&T tethering SMS" title="att-tethering-sms" width="275" height="164" class="alignright size-full wp-image-19793" /> Unsurprisingly, AT&T is continuing to actively pursue users who partake in unofficial tethering methods by means of a jailbreak. This isn’t really news though, we mentioned that <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/03/17/att-cracking-down-on-unofficial-iphone-tethering-mywi-users/">AT&T was cracking down on unofficial tethering</a> back in March, but nonetheless those who are still using apps like MyWi are continuing to get notifications from AT&T.</p> <p>Earlier in the year, we wrote:</p> <blockquote><p>Customers are being notified that their service plans need updating to subscribe to a tethering plan, and that they will be automatically subscribed to a DataPro 4GB package that costs $45 per month if they continue to tether. In the email, AT&T also notes that if customers discontinue the use of tethering, no changes will be made to their plan.</p></blockquote> <p>This continues to to be true, but the efforts by AT&T only really effect jailbreakers who use apps like MyWi or PDANet and who still have the grandfathered unlimited data plans. Many users have been <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/03/17/att-cracking-down-on-unofficial-iphone-tethering-mywi-users/#comments">expressing frustration in our comments</a> and elsewhere about AT&T’s decision to ditch unlimited data and to charge for tethering. Supposedly there are <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/05/09/how-att-detects-unofficial-tethering/">ways to prevent AT&T from detecting your tethering use</a>, but ultimately it seems like a losing battle, so you should probably get used to paying for the service if you use it. <span id="more-19792"></span> Various sites have picked up on the new round of messages sent to those jailbroken tethering users, and AT&T responded to an inquiry from <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2011/08/04/att-to-soon-begin-revoking-unlimited-data-from-jailbreak-hotspot-users/">BGR</a> with the following:</p> <blockquote><p>Earlier this year, we began sending letters, emails, and text messages to a small number of smartphone customers who use their devices for tethering but aren’t on our required tethering plan. Our goal here is fairness for all of our customers. (This impacts a only small percentage of our smartphone customer base.)</p> <p>The letters outline three choices:</p> <p>1. Stop tethering and keep their current plan (including grandfathered unlimited plan)</p> <p>2. Proactively call AT&T or visit our stores and move to the required tethering plan</p> <p>3. Do nothing and we’ll go ahead and add the tethering plan on their behalf — after the dated noted in their customer notification </p></blockquote> <p>Apologies if this sounds like Groundhog Day.</p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/eAPxfPp7_Bxmo1lp2mPaSmY-cmQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/eAPxfPp7_Bxmo1lp2mPaSmY-cmQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/eAPxfPp7_Bxmo1lp2mPaSmY-cmQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/eAPxfPp7_Bxmo1lp2mPaSmY-cmQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=g0qIqdOdBoM:u9XyrQAkVeg:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=g0qIqdOdBoM:u9XyrQAkVeg:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=g0qIqdOdBoM:u9XyrQAkVeg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=g0qIqdOdBoM:u9XyrQAkVeg:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=g0qIqdOdBoM:u9XyrQAkVeg:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=g0qIqdOdBoM:u9XyrQAkVeg:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=g0qIqdOdBoM:u9XyrQAkVeg:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/g0qIqdOdBoM" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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