Apple won't support iPhone to iPad tethering

I think the DOJ needs to investigate Apple and AT&T for this policy as it is clearly not in the best interest of consumers. Moreover, AT&T is engaging is deception by claiming that they offer an unlimited data plan when in fact it's far from it. Another thing which needs to be investigated is the AT&T shenanigan where they forced consumers to switch from an unlimited data plan on the iPad in Aug/Sep of last year. I was one of those that was forcibly switched from the unlimited data plan to the 2GB plan. AT&T sent an email to me making a bogus claim that I had either requested the switch, or was automatically switched due to my average usage was below 2GB. I contacted AT&T repeatedly to correct this, but was given the runaround until I finally gave up.

DOJ – Sick’em

Yeah.... So anyone who owns a iPhone / iPad should be jailbreaking it not for all. The free apps or streaming movie theater movies but for the tools . I have a iPhone 3GS use mywi 10 bucks on cydia and it makes a hotspot now my 32gb iPad just turned into a 3G bc I always have my phone ! And another jailbroken app roqyBT let's you connect iPhone to iPad w Bluetooth and will actually give you gps and everything on iPad pretty sweet no 30 a month for iPad 3G ;)~ jailbreak for phone / iPad for all the amazing tools there's much more ! That's just the tip of iceberg !

btw i forgot to mention i got the ipad for free at http://igotfreeipad.blogspot.com

You mention that you can use your iphone to create a wifi connection (over 3G)...how do you do this without jailbreaking or does it have to be jailbroken? I am in NZ that allows tethering but have never seen app that allowed this

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I'm all for companies making money, but at what point are Apple and AT&T exploiting their customers? To me, if you're going to offer tethering via a capped data plan, there should be no restrictions on how customers consume that data. Especially if you're already charging them for the tethering!

Looks like it's definitely an apple thing and not just AT&T. Just went to the apple store here in Perth Western Aus and the dude told me no tethering :(

I guess you gotta have some reason to justify the wifi only and wifi + 3G models.

Why not buy a decent phone that has Android 2.2 on it - problem solved.

So happy I have a Nexus One. I can turn it into a mobile hotspot so I could surf the web on the WiFi anywhere :)

The reason they don't want you tethering to the iPad and using your data plan on both is because they oversell.

They know that of all their userbase, only a small amount are actually going to use up all the data included in the plan. so they tell you you're getting 2GB when they're prepared to only give probably 500MB to most.

I never had any inclination to jailbreak - until now...