AT&T: Talk To Apple If You Want iPhone-to-iPad Tethering. We Don’t Care.

John Brownlee ()

AT&T: Talk To Apple If You Want iPhone-to-iPad Tethering. We Don’t Care.Yesteday, an AT&T spokesperson put the kibosh on any possibility of using the iPhone’s new tethering abilities to drive your iPad.

“It won’t be possible to tether the iPhone to the iPad to share Internet access,” an AT&T spokesperson bluntly said.

The usual hue and cry against AT&T resulted, but now, AT&T is clarifying matters, saying they don’t have any problem with iPads and iPhones tethered together in conjoined bliss. Rather, they blame Apple.

“You’ll need to speak with Apple. There is no AT&T policy around tethering and the iPad,” a spokesperson told Gizmodo.

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Well, that’s certainly good news if true. I can’t think of any reason Apple wouldn’t allow this if their network partners are onboard. Hopefully, then, iPad-to-iPhone tethering is something we’ll see in iPhone OS 4.0.

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John BrownleeJohn Brownlee is news editor here at Cult of Mac, and has also written about a lot of things for a lot of different places, including Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, Gizmodo, Kotaku, Lifehacker, AMC, Geek and the Consumerist. He lives in Cambridge with his charming inamorata and a tiny budgerigar punningly christened after Nabokov's most famous pervert. You can follow him here on Twitter.

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  • Pdm777

    Why would Apple allow tethering…you then would not purchase their 3g ipad and pay all that extra money for a $2.00 chip.

  • Dr. Evil

    The best reason to Jailbreak your iPhone and get MyWi. Works Great.

  • http://www.ipadweek.ly/ iPad Weekly

    Agree with Dr. Evil, Tethering with the iPad via JailBreak works just fine.

  • charli

    Make no mistake, ATT does care. They just don’t want the bad PR of saying it. They would much rather make the extra $5 of the second account. Then again, you are more likely to go over that 2GB limit and have to pay $10 per GB so in the end, maybe they figure they will get the money back that way.

  • Craig

    Great news…now I can point back to this if they ever send me a nasty letter about tethering using MiWi!

  • um no

    I don’t believe a word of this. AT&T has a long history for not taking responsibility for their dumb decisions and blaming others for their litany of screw-ups.