O2 and Vodafone working on iPhone tethering

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• I think I should be the one to play wioth tthe Samsung WB500 Posted by tinkertoytech, USA
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  Roaming tethering is also something that the operators make mega-money out of.
  
  I took my Vodafone N95 abroad last year, having checked with our reseller who told me about the data card rates, which (from memory) would have been around a tenner a day for less than 50mb. The problem here is that when I asked the question, our reseller assumed I had a data card, not the tethered phone.
  
  I stuck within my daily limits and came back to a £1100 bill.
  
  We eventually got this down to around £500 with a combination of pleading and a reminder of how many 'phones we had with them which were due to fall out of contract, but it still isn't right that the you can come back from holiday expecting a bill of £150 and find you've racked up a grand more than you bargained for, even more so when you realise that data would have come through just the same infrastructure if I'd used a data card.
  
  If Vodafone and O2 do allow tethering for the Iphone/G2, then make absolutely certain that you ask the right questions about roaming. Posted by John B., UK
• I think the other data modem operators are getting twitchy about this. The contract on my Three data modem recently expired, and when I mentioned that I might just wait for my iPhone to become tether-enabled rather than renew, their retention deal got a lot sweeter.
  Posted by Tom Atkinson, UK