I am informed by a man on the inside that the only way O2 would have of telling if you were using the iPhone in a tethered capacity would be looking for abnormal usage, or protocols outside of email/web.
So if you just want the tethering so you can use a laptop to do the usual minimum email and web checking while on the road, you might well get away with it without the absurd plan. If you want it for full-on business use, yeah, it's not perfect.
(I cannot vouch that this is 100% the case, have not tried it myself, and obviously, things may change, but this appears to be the current state of play...)
Oh that's really interesting to know. Thank you. I would not be surprised if 'something' changed about their offering in the next month or so given the combined weight of geek opinion (and geeks are not generally known to be slimline).
Or I have my spreadsheet which will tell me if a short-term E75 might make sense with possible upgrade later in the year if it's changed by then. My main concern is spending the summer in an office with controlled web access - so I will need some kind of mobile device potentially (being the addict I am).
I'm not sure O2 *are* likely to change it - it is, after all, in line with their mobile broadband pricing. I guess it depends on how many accounts they wind up yanking (given that that's what they've said they'll do to anyone they catch...).
Of course it is, but other providers seem to 'care less'. Certainly I've never seen the same big warning from Vodafone about using data that way. Mind you it's probably in the small print.
The risk to O2 is that there is sufficient bad press that Apple get their noses put out of joint and intervene either to 'influence' behaviour or open competition. The chance probably is pretty small - but to charge that kind of money for what is dangerously close to 'no additional service' is the close to a textbook definition of 'unfair' for competition authorities.
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Or a woman? (With or without sense of humour). :-p
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So if you just want the tethering so you can use a laptop to do the usual minimum email and web checking while on the road, you might well get away with it without the absurd plan. If you want it for full-on business use, yeah, it's not perfect.
(I cannot vouch that this is 100% the case, have not tried it myself, and obviously, things may change, but this appears to be the current state of play...)
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Or I have my spreadsheet which will tell me if a short-term E75 might make sense with possible upgrade later in the year if it's changed by then. My main concern is spending the summer in an office with controlled web access - so I will need some kind of mobile device potentially (being the addict I am).
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The risk to O2 is that there is sufficient bad press that Apple get their noses put out of joint and intervene either to 'influence' behaviour or open competition. The chance probably is pretty small - but to charge that kind of money for what is dangerously close to 'no additional service' is the close to a textbook definition of 'unfair' for competition authorities.
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Exams over heh.. now you need to give it a year or so before you are comfy with a more vegetative way of life.
The new iPhone has shinier bits on the inside. You can't see em, but they are there so it is obviously better.
These days I browse the netbook developments rather than phones, at some point my eee701 will be replaced but just waiting a few more months (still).
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