You are of course aware that tethering is at this point against your terms of use contract. And my suspicion is that AT&T will get stricter on those tethering without the tethering plan, once there is an official way to do it.

I’m betting that AT&T is being stricter with data plans on the iPhone than they are with the BlackBerry devices because business users (who often favor BlackBerry) are more willing to give up their money to the telcos for data services than consumers are. It’s hard to say that the iPhone is not a consumer focused device – the iPod software and the camera are most likely aimed at Lizzy the college student more than John the entrprenuer.

Meanwhile, the NetShare app is nothing more than a leach off a service Nullriver doesn’t provide. Bringing them up in this article gives them more credit than they deserve. Awfully nice of them to write an app to “steal” bandwidth that’s not theirs, for use in a manner that is prohibited, and to charge you for the privilege. Then, when they got called on their leaching, they throw up their hands and act surprised? Please.