RSSAndroid tethering is back, just not for those in the United States
By Tim Conneally | Published April 2, 2009, 12:55 PM
Applications that allowed Android-based phones to act as 3G modems were pulled from the Android Market earlier this week, only to be returned again to everywhere...except in the U.S. According to a report from a developer of one of the apps that was pulled earlier in the week, Google found that the applications were a violation of T-Mobile's terms of service.
But given the open nature of Android, and the operating system's availability on wireless networks other than T-Mobile, Google today brought back the tethering apps, with the proviso that T-Mobile USA users will not have access to them. Because (unlike with the iPhone) Android applications can be distributed outside of the Market, however, those users who want tethering can likely find the download elsewhere.
What is the point of an Open Source phone platform if it doesn't give the user freedom to run any software they choose.
We need open cell networks. It runs on our money, our phones, and our applications, so why the hell does T Mobile think they get to decide how we use it?
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|"so why the hell does T Mobile think they get to decide how we use it?"
Let's see. Because its THEIR network, THEIR service infrastructure, and THEIR business that you are contracting with.
When YOU and all of your friends want to foot the bill to build the infrastructure necesary to operate a wireless network, then YOU can make the rules, nitwit!
Its should be apparent that this asinine sense of entitlement is what is responsible for Obama and the like as they anticipate all of the additional 'free' entitlements!
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|OMG!!!!
Can you imagine the uproar there would be here if a truly heinous company like Apple had the audacity to do such a thing, and not a truly benevolent, wonderful and kind company such as Google ?!?!?!?!
LMAO!
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|Download PdaNet (best tethering app 2 use for Android)
http://www.junefabrics.com/android/index.php
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|Thanks for the link, the program works great!
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