[ale] Moving my phone into the 20th Century

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

Scott Plante <splante at insightsys.com> writes:

> Charles Shapiro wrote:
> "Most 3rd-party ROMS will allow you to do tethering or personal wifi right
> from the OS; Verizon's build of Android has this feature disabled."
>
> Actually, that's no longer true--Verizon does allow tethering and personal
> wifi hotspots directly now. It was due to a settlement with the FCC.
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57485518-94/
> what-verizons-fcc-tethering-settlement-means-to-you-faq/
>
> Still, there are lots of other reasons to use Cyanogen. Free tethering is just
> no longer one of them.

Alas this ruling didn't carry over to other operators like Sprint...

-derek

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