On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:54 AM, Don Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote: > It's completely silly / moronic / self-defeating / pick an adjective for > Sprint to offer NO tethering, and for Verizon to only offer the expensive > Cadillac type. With becoming more ubiquitous, many/most people just need > tethering occasionally, in a pinch. Sprint and Verizon should offer some > limited, supported tool to enable this, and charge a small monthly fee, or a > per megabyte fee, or hybrid of the two.
Exactly. With many hotels charging $9.99 to $14.99 per day, carriers could easily make some tidy change by giving me the option of 24 hours of use for, say, $2.99. If I use it all month, then they made even more money than if I had a plan. And if I don't, well, then we're both better off.
