Jeff Campbell
06-23-2009, 08:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.macworld.com/article/141284/o2_tethering.html' target='_blank'>http://www.macworld.com/article/141..._tethering.html</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"O2, the iPhone service provider in the UK, claims it will disconnect anyone using the new tethering feature in the iPhone 3.0 update without signing up for its bolt-on data package."</em></p><p><em><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/at/auto/1245718727.usr105634.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #d2d2bb;" /></em></p><p>Users in the UK, and also in the US, have reported being able to use this feature already (The Apple Blog has a step by step <a href="http://theappleblog.com/2009/06/22/iphone-3g-s-enable-tethering/" target="_blank">article</a>). But now O2 is going to put a crimp in the UK style by adding what they are calling a "Bolt-On" to the iPhone 3GS, which will cost will cost "up to £29.36 a month." O2 has threatened to disconnect anyone found not using the "Bolt-On" from the service. </p><p>I guess it is like anything, go outside the contract and you take your usability into your own hands. </p>