AT&T Says, “No 3G Tethering to You, iPhone Owners!”

I know I said I support AT&T’s decision not to rollout 3G tethering service for the iPhone until their network is robust enough to handle it. But, still reading this item in 9to5mac.com made my head ache and throb a bit in pure annoyance…

AT&T: Tethering is probably going to be a 2010 thing

9to5mac gives a rundown on the sequence of interpreations that lead many of us (including me) to believe that AT&T stated that tethering would be available by the Fall of 2009. This assumption is apparently based on assumptions and guesses.

I hope AT&T’s network engineers are working on getting their network into a condition where it can support iPhone users tethering netbooks and notebooks. In the meantime, I’ll guess that Verizon and Sprint MiFi sales are doing quite well and that many of those sales are to frustrated iPhone owners.

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