richardlai.xanga.com - 6/18/2009
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Tested platform: iPhone 3G 16GB, Firmware 3.0 [should work on the 3G S as well] iTunes not needed. This is a walkthrough of how I enabled tethering on my iPhone 3G on O2 UK. It was a lot easier than I thought - no jailbreaking needed, and all you need really is a MobileConfig file, which is ...
appmodo.com - 6/18/2009
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appmodo.com —
iPhone Tethering with AT&T EXCLUSIVE: A source with
AT&T informed Appmodo today that MMS for the iPhone...
will be coming mid July, not “the end of the summer” as previously reported. The highly anticipated tethering option will also be delivered ...
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Apple iPhone MMS Coming In July, Tethering $55
facebook.com - 6/19/2009
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facebook.com —
TETHERING There are a lot of reports out
there, but wanted you guys to know that rumors...
of $55 tethering plan on top of an unlimited data plan are false. We’ll have more news to share when the iPhone tethering option is closer to launch. PRICING ...
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AT&T iPhone 3G S
9to5mac.com - 6/18/2009
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9to5mac.com —
iPhone 3.0 is live ! so we are
going to repost our tethering tutorial with some big...
improvements. You now don't have to do any downgrading or torrenting. Seems you can just run a little command in terminal (Make sure you are ...
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Enable tethering shortcut found - iPhone 3.0 is Live!
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How to tether your iPhone running OS 3.0 without jailbreaking, for free
Engadget —
... Is it simple? Yes. Risky? A bit. Legal? We'll leave that to the lawyers 'cause we know that you're aching to give tethering a spin over your newly downloaded iPhone OS 3.0 update. We've seen several guides to enable tethering ever since OS 3.0 was first released into ...
How To Enable Tethering and MMS on iPhone 3.0: A Duet [IPhone]
Gizmodo —
... If MMS doesn't really matter to you (be honest!) you can try this simpler, tethering-only method that allegedly works on all carriers (though it was tested on the UK's O2 network—written by RIchard Lai and spotlighted by ...
Hack brings iPhone 3.0 tethering for free on O2
T3.com News —
... free anyway!). Although I'll be careful not to take the piss, as I don't want to alert the O2 police," said one anonymous staffer over on TechRadar.
Want to know how? Here’s what you do: fire up your iPhone, go to this site http://help.benm.at/, download a small file, pick your carrier and let it do its magic. It’s really that simple.
If you want a more complex way of doing it, visit the creator’s site for further info.
Now then, time for the inevitable caveats. This is ...
IPhone fine-tuning gets good reception
GMSV —
... phones and upgrading to the feature-laden new operating system, which is free.” While OS 3.0 delivers some long-awaited additions copy, cut and paste, improved search and push notification among them the bigger excitement in the blogosphere Wednesday was over tethering, the ability to connect to the Net using the phone as a modem and a capability built in to the new OS but not scheduled to be supported by U.S. carrier AT&T until late summer. No matter fresh on the scene are some simple instructions for activating the function without jailbreaking the phone. A bit ...
Guide to enable tethering on iPhone 3.0 (WorldWide carriers)
D' Technology Weblog —
... your tethering i.e. don't go watching YouTube or BBC iPlayer! Also, tethering option on the iPhone is only available with an official iPhone carrier.
On your iPhone visit http://help.benm.at/
On the next screen, select "MobileConfigs"
Next, select your provider and download the settings pack
You should now be able to enable tethering
Source:→ Richard Lai ...
iPhone OS 3.0: How to enable internet tethering for free
Phones Review —
... You do not need to use iTunes to hack or jailbreak your phone just simply visit a website and download settings to update your device, below is Richard Lai simple guide: ...
Enable Tethering and MMS on Your iPhone 3.0 [IPhone]
Lifehacker —
... , from Aaron Krill, involves spoofing AT into thinking you're using a different phone (read: any phone other than the iPhone), and in a nutshell looks like this: • Enable IPCC updates on iTunes 8.2 • Update IPCC files • Spoof AT 's website into thinking you have an other phone To enable MMS using the method provided by Krill requires that you have another GSM or (better yet) AT phone on hand. Tethering method two , courtesy of Richard Lai, points you to ...
Unofficial iPhone Tethering is Easier Than Ever
Mac|Life all RSS Feed —
tethered iphone Are you an iPhone user? Does your patience with AT&T and its lack of tethering get your goat? Well, here's your chance to bring tethering to your iPhone without official support. Richard Lai has come up with the easiest way to tether your iPhone's internet connection to your computer, as promised by Apple, but delayed by AT&T. This "hack" doesn't involve the Terminal, or even your Mac. It's all done with the iPhone. Simply navigate on your iPhone to: ...
O2 will punish unauthorized iPhone tetherers. Et tu, AT&T?
TechBlog —
... June 18, 2009 O2 will punish unauthorized iPhone tetherers. Et tu, AT ? It didn't take long for those with time on their hands and mad skillz in their heads to come up with a hack that enables tethering on iPhones running OS 3.0 . image And it doesn't require a comp-sci degree, either. It's as simple as installing a text-based configuration file and changing a few settings and BOOM! Your notebook or desktop computer is using your iPhone to surf the Intarwebs. Even a side effect of breaking the iPhone's Visual Voicemail has been dealt with in short order. And it also didn't ...
O2 will punish unauthorized iPhone tetherers. Et tu, AT&T?
TechBlog —
... June 18, 2009 O2 will punish unauthorized iPhone tetherers. Et tu, AT&T? It didn't take long for those with time on their hands and mad skillz in their heads to come up with a hack that enables tethering on iPhones running OS 3.0 . ...
iPhone Internet Tethering: The New Cash Machine for Carriers? Not Necessarily.
HardMac.com —
... Of course carriers will not allow such usage for free as it uses 3G bandwidth on their network. Well, you could argue that having an iPhone-bundled data subscription plan should give you the right to use the internet tethering function as part of your plan. Well, no; it is considered as "data', but it is not the same "data". Some users quickly developed hacks to bypass restrictions applied by carriers. It is relatively simple, however it is not clean and carriers can track your "illegal" data consumption via internet tethering. ...
Breakfast briefing: US file sharer fined almost $2m
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... Thomas came to a close yesterday, with a guilty verdict and a whopping fine of almost $2m given to the 32-year-old mother of two. Thomas was being retried since the first trial was overturned on appeal thanks to legal errors regarding the instructions given to the jury. This time: she was found liable for wilful copyright infringement and fined $80,000 for each of 24 songs she shared online through Kazaa. Ouch. • After iPhone hackers found a way to hack together laptop tethering, O2 has responded by saying it ...
iPhone Internet Tethering: The New Cash Machine for Carriers? Not Necessarily.
MacBytes.com —
... Tethering. This function is quite simple: it turns your iPhone into a 3G modem, so you can browse the web from your computer via your iPhone. Of course carriers will not allow such usage for free as it uses 3G bandwidth on their network. Well, you could argue that having an iPhone-bundled data subscription plan should give you the right to use the internet tethering function as part of your plan. Well, no; it is considered as "data', but it is not the same "data". Some users quickly developed hacks to bypass restrictions applied by carriers. It is relatively simple, however ...
Turning on iPhone Tethering Even Easier Than We Thought
Cult of Mac —
... Remember when Lonnie told you about an easy, fool-proof way to turn on iPhone tethering in the US? Well, there’s a way, way easier method, and it’s much, much more foolproof.
Simply point Mobile Safari to http://help.benm.at, select your country, download the profile for your carrier, and install. The settings menu will add an Internet Tethering toggle in the Network section. Then just pair with your computer over Bluetooth or plug in via USB and go. No restart required. It’s really that easy.
Performance has been rock-solid in my ...
AT&T Says GoodBye To Un-Authorized Tethering
Buy Me An iPhone.com: News & Video Reviews of iPhone Accessories & Apps —
... Back in the day when Apple released a new firmware update, it meant that jailbreakers stayed away from anything that might take away from the awesomeness that was their iPhones. Well since the drop of the 3.0 software, its not just those jailbreakers who have to worry. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you more than likely know that with a simple install via Safari, you can activate Tethering and MMS to your AT&T shackled iPhone. Well no doubt AT&T heard about it, maybe even feeling the increased strain on the network, asked Apple to patch up the hole ...
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O2 warn unofficial iPhone tethering may prompt disconnection
slashgear.com 6/18/2009 — It hasn’t taken hackers long to enable unofficial tethering on iPhone handsets running OS 3.0, and its taken carriers even less time to put out the predictable dire warnings regarding anyone found using such hacks. UK carrier and official Apple iPhone partner O2 have issued a statement ...
Damage control: AT&T denies $55 tethering charge rumor
tuaw.com 6/22/2009 —
While it was rumored that AT&T would charge an additional $55 to enable U.S. customers to use internet tethering on the iPhone, the company has scrambled to deny that claim by posting an update on its Facebook page :
"There are a lot of ...
Enable tethering on iPhone OS 3.0
obsessable.com 6/18/2009 — Hackaday: http://bit.ly/trw1R If you've always wanted to use your iPhone as a wireless modem for your laptop, you can now enable the feature, although it's unsupported by Apple, AT&T; might not like it, and it may be illegal.
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Enable tethering in iPhone 3.0
crunchgear.com 6/19/2009 —
Sorry, AT&T, but you can’t hide tethering from the very folks who taught you, long ago, what it meant to truly tether. First, download this carrier update and then type this into Terminal.
defaults write com.apple.iTunes ...
MMS and tethering functional on some AT&T iPhone 3Gs running 3.0?
engadgetmobile.com 6/13/2009 —
AT&T's been feeding us a story that it'll offer MMS on the iPhone only "once [it completes] some system upgrades that will ensure our customers have the best experience," but here's the thing: it seems that it works right now -- if you've got a ...
MMS and tethering functional on some AT&T iPhone 3Gs running 3.0?
engadget.com 6/13/2009 —
AT&T's been feeding us a story that it'll offer MMS on the iPhone only "once [it completes] some system upgrades that will ensure our customers have the best experience," but here's the thing: it seems that it works right now -- if you've got a ...
Palm: Prithee, good sirs, speak not of Palm Pre tethering
crunchgear.com 6/15/2009 —
In an example of rolling over in the name of “good relationships,” the Pre Dev Wiki has shut down their tethering page because “Sprint could get angry.” This is in stark contrast with iPhone devs who couldn’t give ...
Tether your iPhone 3G now!
intomobile.com 6/15/2009 — “But,” you say, “AT&T ( NYSE: T ) has yet to officially support data tethering on the iPhone OS 3.0.”
That may be true, but that hasn’t stopped the fearless iPhone community from tethering their iPhone 3G’s ...
MLB Streaming Live Games To iPhone
gearfuse.com 6/17/2009 — With the iPhone 3.0 OS officially dropping today (though some of us have had ours for a week and have since hacked it for tethering!), MLB.com is pulling all punches with its new iPhone App, At Bat. While the app itself isn't new, the 3.0 update will ...
iPhone OS 3.0 tethering and MMS hack released
slashgear.com 6/18/2009 — As we know, iPhone OS 3.0 brings with it the potential for tethering on your Apple smartphone, using the handset’s 3G connection to get your laptop, netbook or other mobile device online while on the move. Apple have done all they can to make it straightforward – you can tether ...
iPhone 3.0 tethering is easy
hackaday.com 6/18/2009 —
Did you upgrade your iPhone to 3.0 yet? 9 to 5 Mac has posted a very good reason to upgrade: enabling tethering is almost stupidly simple . Just run a simple command and then go through a restore procedure. All thats left is to sit back and enjoy ...
AT&T iPhone customers: tethering is coming, for a price
tuaw.com 6/18/2009 — Citing an exclusive source from within AT&T, appmodo reports that "tethering support is coming later this summer" is AT&T-speak for "tethering support is coming at the end of July." It won't be coming cheaply, however; appmodo's source says a ...
If you'd pay $55 a month to tether your iPhone, you're just plain stupid
feeds.boingboing.net 6/18/2009 — Applemodo reports that the iPhone MMS is coming in July, and that tethering will be $55 a month . This can't be true: tethering simply means that AT&T; is allowing the iPhone to share its internet connection. To nearly double the data plan's price as a result means either that AT&T;'s network ...
AT&T iPhone tethering at end of July for $55?
slashgear.com 6/19/2009 — The AT&T tethering debacle continues, and after yesterday’s super-simple unofficial hack , now comes the first leak regarding possible pricing for the carrier’s official package. According to an internal AT&T source, tethering for the iPhone 3G and 3G S will be offered at ...
iPhone Tethering and MMS Hacks Surface
macrumors.com 6/19/2009 — Many AT&T; iPhone customers have been disappointed by the carrier's lack of support for both Internet tethering and MMS at launch for iPhone OS 3.0. A pair of new reports today highlight a couple of iPhone hacks for enabling tethering and/or MMS with...
AT&T iPhone data tethering plan to be $55 monthly?
obsessable.com 6/19/2009 — Unless it includes the regular data plan, it's still too much. There's been a bunch of rumour and speculation on this ever since AT&T; promised "data tethering is coming," and a new "inside source" puts the monthly price point for the forthcoming iPhone tethering plan at $55 . Though it's less ...
AT&T: $55 Tethering Rumors Are False
loopinsight.com 6/19/2009 — AT&T statement:
There are a lot of reports out there, but wanted you guys to know that rumors of $55 tethering plan on top of an unlimited data plan are false. We’ll have more news to share when the iPhone tethering option is closer to ...
Easiest iPhone OS 3 Tethering Enabling Trick! —
The Next Web
Are you based in the U.S.A, Austria, Brazil, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands or Switzerland and is your iPhone upgraded to Firmware version 3.0? Then all you need to do is visit this URL to enable Tethering on your iPhone. No hacking, jailbreaking or any of that scary stuff. Just ...
Simple Hack to Enable Tethering on iPhone OS 3.0 —
Just Another iPhone Blog
Copyright © 2009 Josh Gard . Visit the original article at http://justanotheriphoneblog.com/wordpress/iphone-tips/simple-hack-to-enable-tethering-on-iphone-os-30/ .
The non-availability of tethering in the United States was one of the most disappointing features for me with the recent ...
Enable Tethering and MMS on iPhone 3G S, iPhone 3G —
iPhone Alley - News
So that super easy "hack" to enable tethering on the 3G we posted totally works on the 3G S. Simply open this link on your iPhone 3G S (same link we posted before) and install the profile. Boom, tethering!
Of course many have asked about enabling MMS and there's a solution for that too! ...
Tricky AT&T iPhone 3.0 tethering —
Betanews
By Tim Conneally, Betanews It didn't take long for crafty users to figure out how to enable tethering on their newly-updated 3.0 iPhones, irrespective of carrier regulations. Apple community MacMegasite posted its own method for tethering, and BenM.at's iPhone Help Center provides not only an ...
How to Enable Tethering on iPhone OS 3.0 —
iPhoneHeat
Internet Tethering
For those who don’t know what internet tethering is, it basically allows you to connect to WiFi or 3G on your laptop through your iPhone by turning your iPhone into a “modem”.
The most disappointing announcement made at the WWDC 2009 Keynote is the ...
Simple Hack to Enable Tethering on iPhone OS 3.0 —
iPhone Hacks
The non-availability of tethering and MMS features in the U.S at the time of the launch of iPhone OS 3.0 was probably the most disappointing news that was announced at the WWDC 2009 Keynote address. However, some clever folks have figured out a way to enable tethering on iPhone OS...
iPhone 3.0 OS: How to enable tethering —
Phones Review
iPhone OS 3.0 is out and with it comes tethering for the iPhone, so all you need now is how to enable said tethering, and 9to5Mac has fully detailed the process.
Apparently enabling tethering only take 60 seconds but you will be required to download and mount a carrier settings file first and ...
Video: iPhone 3GS Internet tethering benchmark —
The Apple Core
If you’re willing to throw caution to the wind you can install a simple hack to enable Internet Tethering on an iPhone running Apple’s new 3.0 software. A reader from the Los Angeles area submits this video of iPhone tethering to a MacBook Pro being benchmarked using online speed ...
Hack to Enable MMS on iPhone OS 3.0 —
iPhone Hacks
The non-availability of tethering and MMS features in the U.S at the time of the launch of iPhone OS 3.0 was probably the most disappointing news that was announced at the WWDC 2009 Keynote address. Some folks had figured out a simple hack to enable tethering on iPhone OS 3.0...
AT&T Not to Charge $55 for iPhone Tethering —
Mobilewhack.com
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AT&T; is denying those rumors saying that future iPhone [2] tethering plan will cost $55 and it's doing that via Facebook. That's an odd, but interesting way to announce something like that. Especially since the company hasn't actually announced the official pricing for iPhone tethering. I ...
Rumor: iPhone tethering to cost $55 per month —
Crave: The gadget blog
iPhone tethering is awesome, but will you really have to pay $55 per month for the privilege?
iPhone tethering is coming soon (or now if you're up for a quick and easy hack ), meaning you'll be able to use your handset as a wireless modem for your PC. ... Originally posted at iPhone Atlas
Rumor: iPhone tethering to cost $55 per month —
iPhone Atlas
iPhone tethering is awesome, but will you really have to pay $55 per month for the privilege?
iPhone tethering is coming soon (or now if you're up for a quick and easy hack ), meaning you'll be able to use your handset as a wireless modem for your PC. But at what price?
Rumors have been ...
How To Enable Tethering On iPhone 3.0 —
Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews
Apparently there is a way to enable tethering by modifying the code on the iPhone OS 3.0. If you are going to pursue this, I can only say it is at your own risk and I do not claim responsibility for what happens after. Read this whole post before getting started as there are two ways to ...
Enable iPhone Tethering ... Now. —
Mac Geekery
This has been floating around the Internet but I felt the need to say that:
I tried it.
It works.
The German site BenM posted a few days ago that it had written up some configurations for iPhone OS 3.0 that enable tethering on most carriers, whether they wanted it done or ...
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