For an extra $30... sigh it won't be long before it is much cheaper but until that point...Viva La Revolution!
Tristan
· 1 month ago
The question is, will the 5GB limit include both tethered usage and normal phone usage? Or will you have 5GB for your laptop and 5GB for your phone, for a total max of 10GB. If its the latter, it's a decent deal. If it's the former, it's a horrible deal.
JasonBrett
· 1 month ago
To me, the big question is whether you will be locked into an additional contract term for tethering, or can you turn it on for a month when traveling and off when you don't need it? If so, $30 is a little steeper than I'd like, but not completely unreasonable. If you have to sign a 1 or 2 year contract on the tethering option, it's a non-starter for me.
facebook-617709211
· 1 month ago
"After all, one of US iPhone customers biggest complaints is the lack of an option from AT&T, leaving users to rely on secondary hardware or software hacks."
What a terribly written sentence...
alexlmiller
· 1 month ago
This is actually a pretty standard setup for Verizon. If you have a smartphone, you have to pay $60/month for tethering, but they count the cost of your normal data plan as part of that.
IE: I have a Blackberry with the BES plan, which is $45/month, so I only have to pay an extra $15/month for tethering ($60 total).
Nice part about all of it is that VZW doesn't restrict the phones that you can get tethering on, unlike AT&T
Mike Murray
· 1 month ago
I'm fine with this. I'll probably get my work to pay for tethering.
Ryan
· 1 month ago
On my Blackberry bill there is a limit on tethering but no limit on the Blackberry data access. Also if you get the $99 PDA/Smartphone Nationwide Email & Messaging plan you should be able to add tethering for only $15.
asus
· 1 month ago
$30 extra per month for 5GB? Uhh.. I can blow through 5GB in much less than a month... meh
Snook
· 1 month ago
Or you could use the no rooting needed PdaNet app for a one time fee of $30...
JP Richardson
· 1 month ago
Christina, you sound like a shill for Verizon.
-JP
Name
· 1 month ago
Nice. In Finland we have unlimited data plan (just SIM card, no other costs) 9,8€/month. This can be added to existing contract. At least something is better here. :)
Rami Taibah
· 1 month ago
Or just wait until some genius figures out how to root it, install tether.apk and your good to go. :)
frvf
· 1 month ago
just give me a netbook that has 3g/wimax/ with android .. and the calling from skype/gvoice/any video chat // sms(txt)gvoice,ymail,, thats futuristic!!
Rudy
· 1 month ago
I was planning on getting a droid until two minutes ago when I found out it won’t tether until 2010. I’m between permanent housing at the moment and tethering is my primary home internet. Booo
BTW I didn’t have to sign a contract for tethering.
webby
· 1 month ago
I only tether very occasionally. Therefore $30/mo is way too much. $15 I might pay
Dave
· 1 month ago
I have Sprint. Reception is great, it's fast, unlimited Internet access and messaging is $20/month and I can tether my brains out. I've had no problem running both my laptop and my iPod Touch over the phone. I have an HTC Mogul (Windows Mobile). It amazes me that people put up with Verizon.
JCashMoney
· 1 month ago
An app will likely be available to tether the Droid to a PC before Verizon makes their paid mobile broadband connect option available. That's assuming one doesn't already exist. I've used my Treo 755p with a work-around program (PDAnet) for two years now without ever paying for mobile broadband connect. I simply bought PDAnet for a one time $30 fee.
This looks to me like a data plan and not a tethering plan. If the phone is open source, how does Verizon plan to stop us from installing a application that can allow us to tether? Or is there more governance that no one is talking about right now?
All Comments
What a terribly written sentence...
IE: I have a Blackberry with the BES plan, which is $45/month, so I only have to pay an extra $15/month for tethering ($60 total).
Nice part about all of it is that VZW doesn't restrict the phones that you can get tethering on, unlike AT&T
-JP
BTW I didn’t have to sign a contract for tethering.
It amazes me that people put up with Verizon.
http://www.droidforums.net
Or is there more governance that no one is talking about right now?