Thread: Q to Americans with 3G
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2008-12-22 , 20:55
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Originally Posted by Munk View Post
Also, with the T-Mobile 3G network there are people on this board who are tethering to their 3G enabled phones and paying $4.99 (T-Zones) a month for this option. It's suppose to be for slow old Edge/GPRS directly on the phones WAP browser but there is nothing stopping them from getting the 1.5Mbps to 700kbps downloads for that $5 a month. Yeah, yeah, use your conscience on this one too.
No conscience involved. T-mobile's pretty much unique in the US, as tethering, even on T-zones, is not a violation of TOS. However, the way T-zones is set up does have a technical penalty: everything has to run through a proxy (adding latency) or a few non-standard ports.

I've got a 3G-capable phone on T-mobile, but haven't been anywhere 3G is rolled out yet, so I've just been using EDGE.
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