{"id":4215,"date":"2010-06-02T02:26:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T09:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=4215"},"modified":"2010-06-02T02:26:53","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T09:26:53","slug":"att-to-allow-iphone-tethering-starting-june-7th-and-it-will-cost-additional-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2010\/06\/02\/att-to-allow-iphone-tethering-starting-june-7th-and-it-will-cost-additional-20\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&#038;T to allow iPhone Tethering starting June 7th, and it will cost additional $20."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AT&amp;T will be offering Data Tethering plan starting June 7th, 2010 coinciding with Apple Worldwide Developer Conference.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.att.com\/gen\/press-room?pid=4800&amp;cdvn=news&amp;newsarticleid=30854\" target=\"_blank\">The new wireless data plans<\/a> \u2013 including a new tethering option \u2013 will be available beginning <strong>June 7<\/strong>.\u00a0 Current AT&amp;T voice and texting plans are unchanged.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8230;&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The new AT&amp;T plans provide large amounts of data to enable people to enjoy their favorite online activities:<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>DataPlus<\/strong>.<br \/>\nProvides 200 megabytes (MB) of data &#8230;&#8230;. If customers exceed 200 MB in a monthly billing cycle, they will receive an additional 200 MB of data usage for $15 for use in the cycle.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>DataPro<\/strong>.<br \/>\nProvides 2 gigabytes (GB) of data &#8230;&#8230;. Should a customer exceed 2 GB during a billing cycle, they will receive an additional 1 GB of data for $10 for use in the cycle.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Tethering<\/strong>.<br \/>\nSmartphone customers \u2013 including iPhone customers \u2013 who choose the DataPro plan have the option to add tethering for an additional $20 per month.\u00a0 Tethering lets customers use their smartphones as a modem to provide a broadband connection for laptop computers, netbooks or other computing devices. Tethering for iPhones will be available when Apple releases iPhone OS 4 this summer. <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>With the new wireless data plans, pricing for a smartphone voice and data bundle now starts at just $54.99 per month for an individual plan, or $24.99 per month for an additional line on a FamilyTalk plan, $15 per month less than the price of the previous entry level bundle.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For new iPad customers, the $25 per month 2 GB plan will replace the existing $29.99 unlimited plan. iPad customers will continue to pre-pay for their wireless data plan and no contract is required. Existing iPad customers who have the $29.99 per month unlimited plan can keep that plan or switch to the new $25 per month plan with 2 GB of data.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems that the upcoming iPhone comes with this new data plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AT&amp;T will be offering Data Tethering plan starting June 7th, 2010 coinciding with Apple Worldwide Developer Conference. The new wireless data plans \u2013 including a new tethering option \u2013 will be available beginning June 7.\u00a0 Current AT&amp;T voice and texting plans are unchanged. &#8230;&#8230;. The new AT&amp;T plans provide large amounts of data to enable &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2010\/06\/02\/att-to-allow-iphone-tethering-starting-june-7th-and-it-will-cost-additional-20\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;AT&#038;T to allow iPhone Tethering starting June 7th, and it will cost additional $20.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[946],"tags":[161,1626],"class_list":["post-4215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","tag-3g","tag-iphone-os-4"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-15Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}