AT&T: Tethering Coming to the iPhone Soon

By  |  Thursday, November 6, 2008 at 10:17 am

iphone4Here’s a bit of cheery news from the Web 2.0 Summit: AT&T Mobility President and CEO Ralph De La Vega just told interviewer Michael Arrington that the company is working with Apple to let the iPhone serve as a tethered wireless modem for laptops soon. And he says it’ll be available “soon.”

There have been rumors that this was in the works for a while, but if anyone at AT&T or Apple has made it official until now, I managed to miss it.

There are at least two existing tethering options for the iPhone: NetShare and iModem. The former was removed from Apple’s iPhone App Store and the latter only works on jailbroken iPhones; both violate AT&T’s terms of service. Even if AT&T wants more money for a tethering plan–and I’m assuming it will charge something like $50 or $60 a month–I think a lot of people will sign up.

One major remaining question: Given that Internet access on an iPhone 3G can be pretty sluggish, just how quick will it be if a meaningful percentage of iPhone users are routing their connections to laptops and doing things that are even more bandwidth-hogging than typical iPhone tasks?

 
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  1. moepstar Says:
    November 6th, 2008 at 10:20 am

    I got 1.2mbits down and 180kbits up on 3G so i’d say it’s pretty sufficient

  2. RustyShakleford Says:
    November 6th, 2008 at 10:36 am

    I am getting 1.6 mbps down and 255kbps up but that is only when I am within 2 miles of my current location. I’ve gotten as low as 300kbps down at bad locations. If AT&T’s network could be more consistant than I would consider paying more and dropping my Comcast 4mbps at home.

  3. mb airhead Says:
    November 6th, 2008 at 10:51 am

    I use NetShare now (because Verizon is taking weeks to install FiOS…hate them sooo much) and it’s acceptable. Not sure what it’ll do to ATnT’s network when everyone tries to tether in but since other phones already offer 3G tethering thru ATnT I suspect we’ll all survive.

  4. George Rachor Says:
    November 6th, 2008 at 11:02 am

    I’d like to tether on an adhoc basis like I did with tmobile when my internet was down but…

    Good Grief.. If they are going to charge another $50-$60 per month to be able to tether why use the phone? Just get another laptop card.

  5. Tom K Says:
    November 6th, 2008 at 11:13 am

    If you’re going to jailbreak anyway, why would you fool around with iModem? PdaNet does a much better job and supports all applications and protocols without worrying about SOCKS proxies.

  6. Chip Douglas Says:
    November 6th, 2008 at 11:27 am

    I use PDAnet on a jailbroken 2G iPhone, and pages load SIGNIFICANTLY fast on my laptop over the tethered connection than they do on the iPhone itself. It seems that Safari and/or the iPhone itself are the bottleneck for 2G Web access.

    On a related note, I have noticed that my data access is much slower and, in some cases, inexplicably nonexistent since I used PDAnet a couple of times. This happens regardless of how many bars I have (often with 5) or whether the iPhone reports being on Edge. I’m wondering if AT&T has filters set up to detect tethered connection behavior and throttle internet access thereafter.

  7. Harry McCracken Says:
    November 6th, 2008 at 11:33 am

    I didn’t realize that PDANet was available in an iPhone version–it’s good stuff on other platforms, so that’s good news. And it’s too bad it requires jailbreaking…

    –Harry

  8. moepstar Says:
    November 6th, 2008 at 11:46 am

    “And it’s too bad it requires jailbreaking…”

    But very well worth it 🙂

  9. wkharris Says:
    November 6th, 2008 at 1:41 pm

    Unless it’s free I am not interesting in paying yet another monthly fee to AT&T

  10. Jonathan Says:
    November 6th, 2008 at 4:01 pm

    Anyone know if there’s a way of plugging a USB 3G dongle into something small and powered that makes it think it’s connected to a laptop, gives it power and runs it as a shared wifi point? surely that’s doable?

  11. Chris Heuer Says:
    November 6th, 2008 at 4:47 pm

    There are several wifi access points that accept 3G modems, but I havent seen one in a year or two – Linksys even had one I believe.

    What I am wondering about now is whether or not they are going to force me to keep my 3G Modem contract in addition to the iPhone data plan if I could use this instead – hope I dont have to keep the extra contractual obligations and costs…

  12. houstoncondo Says:
    November 7th, 2008 at 8:46 am

    That will be great! May be they can release for Christmas.

  13. KPD Says:
    November 7th, 2008 at 8:58 am

    I’d be amazed if actual 3G speeds are reached using the iPhone tethering. I currently use my Samsung BlackJack II as a modem & only connect at 234k. Max download speed is ~100k. If speeds are comparable (or hopefully better), I’m finally making the switch!

  14. JOHN W. BUGLER Says:
    November 15th, 2008 at 6:48 pm

    SHOULD BE FREE. IF SO THE I PHONE WILL BE THE HOT SPOT FOR GENERATIONS TO COME.

    NICE SITE. GOOD JOB.

    GOD BLESS.

    JOHN W. BUGLER
    BUGLER.ORG

  15. Apple Sucks Says:
    November 30th, 2008 at 1:38 pm

    (rhetorical question) Now why are jailbroken phones so bad? The devs generally update the software to work with upcoming firmware versions. If you have had a jailbroken phone, you’d see they’ve been tethering for well over 2 years now (iphone 2g and now 3g). Great Homebrew (Doom Game Project) optimizations of the mobile osx platform to maximize its potential well before the app store. a jailbroken iphone is like a linux phone, open to its community. This is such a great phone and the company that is supposed to be promoting it is gimping the phone. Blackberry Storm was released and cant compete in features (add on keyboards, breathalizer, homebrew, gaming, and everything the mobile professional needs. Android came out boasting its linux platform. Oh! Wait! the dev team just did a linux port to the iphone! hrrrrm sounds like apple’s just lazy and doesn’t want to look bad.

    So much much has been done by the iphone community. also by people like you who are reading this who love the usability of your phone and just want to expand upon it, and by the gool ‘ol dev team, who to this day have been battling with apple just to put free apps on the phone, and whom to this day don’t charge a cent what has taken them so much time to accomplish. www(dot)modmyi(dot)com

  16. Sean Says:
    January 6th, 2009 at 7:33 am

    Has anyone heard an update on this? The last I heard, I posted here: http://www.seangw.com/wordpress/index.php/2008/11/att-iphone-tethering-to-cost-30month/ — That the iPhone tethering will cost $30 / month

  17. sprintluvr Says:
    January 10th, 2009 at 9:15 pm

    HTC Titan on Sprint SERO: $30/month for 500 daytime, unlimited night/weekend minutes. Unlimited texts and picture messages. SprintTV. GPS. Unlimited Internet @ ~ 1 Mbps. Windows Mobile makes it trivial to tether the phone to the PC (it’s built-in to the OS as “Internet Connection Sharing”), and with a faster CPU the bandwidth goes to 1.5 Mbps. Using WMWiFiRouter, phone can bind 3G to WiFi and Bluetooth and act as a router, enabling multiple clients to attach to it. I even attach my Touch to it and use fring for VOIP goodness. Even if I could get this on ATT with Iphone, I think it would cost around $150/month. Sprint does it *all* for $30/month, voice+data. No wonder carriers love Iphoners… they are willing to spend so much money for what should be basic services.

  18. the_hacker Says:
    February 6th, 2009 at 7:41 pm

    I have been using tethered iPhone using PdaNet as explained in http://hacksandhints.techievarta.com/2009/02/06/tethering-iphone/ post. I get 2.3Mbps when using PC and 960Kbps from iPhone sitting at the same location. So maybe ATT’s tethered plan will have better speed as well. But, why will I pay monthly subscription fee when I can get it for free.

  19. luis jimenez Says:
    May 25th, 2009 at 1:16 am

    hi guys how are you all doing im very happy let me told you all i have an iphone 3g unlocked and activated with tmobile and when i installed pdanet and i went on line my laptop browser was very fast so i went to a link to check my speed and guess what my speed is 3.6 mbps thats really good this is faster than my regular att dsl on my house please try that and let me know you all speed please at luisjimenez1980@gmail.com thanks a lot guys good luck

  20. Andy Mc Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 4:46 pm

    I spoke to an AT&T store rep today, and he DISCOURAGED me from buying their laptop connect card and $60/month plan. Instead, he told me to wait until June 9, gave me his card, and said to call back to add the tethering plan to my current iPhone for $30/month more.

  21. SEOsean Says:
    June 8th, 2009 at 1:49 pm

    AT&T to release tethering option today (6/8/09), or so a rep tells me: http://www.seosean.com/blog/iphone-att-to-release-tethering-option-today

  22. razr Says:
    October 1st, 2009 at 10:00 am

    the company is working with Apple to let the iPhone serve as a tethered wireless modem for laptops soon. And he says it’ll be available “soon.”
    What else to say? .. Such words are forced to worry! 🙂

  23. cable Says:
    October 9th, 2009 at 10:15 am

    to Razr.. seems you missed :-). Such news has a short life!

  24. Mobile Monopoly Says:
    August 5th, 2010 at 10:49 pm

    iPhone tethering has been a struggle actually, but tethering over USB just works fine with my phone.

  25. Harris Benbow Says:
    August 29th, 2011 at 8:39 am

    this is great info

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    September 4th, 2009 at 10:01 am

    […] company would soon let AT&T customers tether their iPhones to laptops as a wireless modem. I blogged about it and called it cheery news. And waited. In June of this year, Apple announced that the iPhone OS 3.0 software would enable […]

  61. iPhone Tethering on AT&T: One Year and Counting | Technologizer Says:
    November 6th, 2009 at 6:27 pm

    […] See all: News Exactly one year ago, on November 6th, 2008, I was siting in the audience at the Web 2.0 Summit when AT&T Mobility President Ralph De La Vega shared good news from the stage: The company would “soon” be permitting iPhone users to tether their phones for use. I assumed he was a reliable source and blogged the glad tidings. […]

  62. The Correspondence of Steve Jobs Says:
    April 19th, 2010 at 3:19 am

    […] In November of 2008, AT&T Mobility’s president said tethering was coming soon. In March of 2009, Apple announced iPhone OS 3.0, with built-in tethering. In April of 2010, […]

  63. Tethering Coming Soon to iPhone, AT&T SaysThe Best iPhone Blog | The Best iPhone Blog Says:
    July 2nd, 2010 at 8:28 pm

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