My understanding is that each phone is tied to a specific provider for
whatever country it is sold in. So while other providers might allow
tethering, in the US AT&T is the sole iPhone provider, and they do not
currently allow it. Bringing in a phone from outside the US to the US
means it will still try to use the provider it was shipped with. So for
France that would be Orange and you would enjoy international roaming
charges as your local 3G provider would backbill orange for hauling your
traffic back to them. Full list of countries and who has the lock on
them can be found here:
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/the-complete-guide-to-iphone-service-providers
Now you know why so many people jailbreak their phones. My US iPhone was
pretty much useless on a recent trip to Madrid with crazy international
roaming rates if it so much as tickled the local 3G network.
CB
Frank Ventura wrote:
If you buy an unlocked IPhone from overseas is tethering enabled?
Frank
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Blouch
Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 12:19 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: macvoiceover [email protected]
Subject: Re: After I Phone is paired
If you are trying to use your iPhone to supply data connectivity to you
MacBook, this has been disabled by AT&T in the US. Other providers may
allow it. You can find more by googling about iPhone tethering. Here is
one article from last October:
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/10/08/iphone-tethering-still-unavailabl
e-att-says/tab/article/
CB
VaShaun Jones wrote:
Listers I paired my I Phone to my MAc Book Pro and both the computer
and phone can see each other, however when I try to connect them for
browsing and such they fail to connect. Does anyone know of a setting
that needs to be changed for this to work?
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