iPhone 3G Tethering for Notebooks not possible?

Jun 15 2008, 12:26am CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Using a 3G phone as modem for a notebook when needed is something I totally assume to be possible as I do it all the time here in Germany. Now a report that AT&T is not allowing future iPhone 3G owners to use the iPhone 3G to get their notebooks connected according to a widely circulated story on iPhoneAtlas.

AT&T is offering special modem (PAM) plans for BlackBerry and Windows smartphones. It is not clear yet what Apple and AT&T would do to prevent iPhone 3G owners from using it as a modem via Bluetooth for instance.
9to5Mac reports in the meantime that O2 in the UK will totally allow iPhone 3G tethering over Bluetooth. I do not think that Apple will release a special iPhone 3G version for the UK that allows this, so only AT&T could do something on the network side to prevent tethering.
The original iPhone had to be hacked to allow tethering, but without 3G that was not that interesting.
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