There's a war on unlimited data being fought as we speak, and Ma Bell is
leading the main charge. Just days after AT&T announced it would
begin
throttling data speeds
for the heaviest bandwidth hogs grandfathered into the carrier's
no-limit internet service, it's also confirmed it's ready to crack the
whip on illegal tethering as well. In attempt to achieve "fairness for
all of [its] customers," the carrier has added a bit of force behind its
March announcement, sending out notices to anyone using their jailbroken iPhones as a
mobile hotspot.
The gist? Cut it out or be scaled back to a tiered data plan. In a
statement originally given to 9to5mac, an AT&T spokesperson said:
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.)
The letters outline three choices:
1. Stop tethering and keep their current plan (including grandfathered unlimited plan)
2. Proactively call AT&T or visit our stores and move to the
required tethering plan 3. Do nothing and we'll go ahead and add the
tethering plan on their behalf - after the dated noted in their customer
notification
We reached out to AT&T and confirmed that this statement is indeed
true. Consider this the company's last warning -- your time to enjoy
all-you-can-eat tethering is almost at an end. How soon the day of
reckoning will come, however, likely depends on when you received the
notification originally. And you thought you were being
so sneaky...
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