Ken Restivo wrote: > Is there a specific limit? How do they *know* you are tethering? What are the > overage fees and where are they detailed?
From what I've read, they watch your traffic for things like user agent strings (if they see an HTTP header specifying that you're using Firefox, it's a sure thing you're tethering since Firefox doesn't have a mobile browser yet), or that they watch for traffic levels that exceed your phone's capacity. For example, if you surf and browse more than a few GB of traffic (ie: torrent downloads) chances are good that you're tethering since your phone will only natively hold about 200MB of content plus whatever your SD card will hold. As for "overage fees", it's whatever they charge you based on your current plan. For example if you don't HAVE a data plan, they'll hit you with pretty heavy fees. Even at 0.01/kb on the MediaNet plan, they expect all of your content will come through their MediaNet browser. That's $10 per 1 MB of data over their limit, which frankly isn't hard to do these days. Their unlimited data plan used to be $20/month but they raised it to $30 for the new iPhone. Tethering adds even more because they expect that you'll be downloading much more data than users who don't tether. -id _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community