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iPhone App Developers Find Weaknesses in AT&T's Fake Walls

Lets look at it from AT&T perspective. The data consumption with a phone tethered to a laptop is likely to be way higher than just a phone on its own. Bandwidth over the air is not free, its a limited resource so I can understand them wanting users to pay more for tethering/data cards. They could set upper limits on monthly data transfers, high enough that most user's would never hit them, but that would require users be informed when they are near the limits (a simple SMS should work). The problem is in the marketing which talks of "unlimited" data plans. As soon as they would implement limits, even high limits, the competition would be all over them.

People will always try to game they system and companies will respond. I guess this is another reason not to trade in my Nokia for an iPhone - I can still game the system with the Nokia. The other reason is iPhone's lack of voice dialing which is a no-no for a good handsfree in-car experience.