Neowin News Feed for: Tethering

AT&T to also offer unlimited data plan, starting at $100 per month

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 00:34:01 +0000

Following in the footsteps of Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile, AT&T has also decided to start offering its users unlimited data for $100 per month - unfortunately, with no tethering. Read more...

Microsoft and Google fight against hotels blocking personal WiFi

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 24 Dec 2014 10:04:01 +0000

The two tech giants are just some of the big names fighting against an initiative by hotel companies, which are lobbying the FCC to be allowed to block their guests' personal WiFi hotspots. Read more...

T-Mobile announces Full Monty plans: unlimited everything

Andy Weir — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:21:32 +0000

T-Mobile's new price plans offer unlimited voice calls, text messages and mobile data, including free tethering. But will these tariffs spread from the UK to Europe and the US - and is there a catch? Read more...

AT&T announces Hotspot, new tethering plan similar to Verizon's

Michael Collado — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 02:10:38 +0000

AT&T announced today that it will be launching a mobile hotspot feature, allowing mobile phones to share Internet through Wi-Fi with multiple devices, and changed its current tethering plans, making them more competitive with Verizon's. The... Read more...

Verizon iPhone hotspot will cost you $20 a month

Andrew Lyle — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 05:26:30 +0000

The Verizon iPhone is only days away from being officially available across America, and much like other products that near a release date, the catches begin to roll in. When Verizon announced the iPhone will be... Read more...

AT&T announces new data plans and tethering; kills unlimited iPad option

Benjamin Rubenstein — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:02:12 +0000

With the release of the next iPhone looming, AT&T has decided to officially announce its new data plans and their prices. Touting the new plans as "lower-priced," the company is allowing its customers to upgrade... Read more...

Google announces Android 2.2 â€œFroyoâ€

Andrew Lyle — Thu, 20 May 2010 17:07:44 +0000

Google announced today at their Google I/O keynote, that Android 2.2 “Froyo” will be available soon, and are releasing the SDK revision 4 to developers. Android 2.2 promises to improve speed, API and services, browser and... Read more...

65,000 Android phones ship per day; tethering coming soon

Andrew Lyle — Fri, 14 May 2010 04:03:22 +0000

Google said on Thursday that they are shipping 65,000 Android operating system-based handsets per day. Android is available on 34 different devices and in 49 different countries around the world. Eric Schmidt said "It looks... Read more...

AT&T to release iPhone MMS on September 25

Andrew Lyle — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:51:21 +0000

AT&T announced today it will be launching Multimedia Messaging Service or MMS to the iPhone on September 25, 2009. The long awaited update to the iPhone, since its announcement of the 3.0 firmware back in... Read more...

Enable Internet tethering on iPhone 3.0 for free [Updated]

Tom Warren — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:39:28 +0000

This article has been updated, please see updates below In the UK o2 wants to charge nearly Â£15 a month just to tether your iPhone and use it with your laptop. In the US... Read more...

AT&T lagging behind in iPhone 3.0 feature deployment

Brad Sams — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:47:21 +0000

Yesterday Apple announced the iPhone 3GS which is an upgrade with several new features including video recording, MMS, and tethering. The only problem is that if you're on AT&T you won't be getting MMS... Read more...

USB tethering working in iPhone 3.0

Jonathan Steele — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:15:35 +0000

The iPhone 3.0 Software Preview on Tuesday was a huge hit amongst iPhone users and Apple commentators alike. Numerous features which have been high on the feature wish list since the initial launch in June... Read more...

Review: Ubuntu 8.10, 3G tethering works very well

Michael Stanclift — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:05:47 +0000

This Thursday, October 30, the Canonical team will celebrate the release of the latest version of their Linux desktop, Ubuntu 8.10. Based on Linux kernel 2.6.27, the release will feature some big improvements including the... Read more...