Rogers / Fido: Current tethering policy to continue forever!

[photon]

Effective immediately, tethering will continue to be included at no additional charge for Rogers and Fido customers who subscribe to data plans of 1 GB and above (excluding those listed below). This effectively makes our current promotion (which was set to expire on May 3) our ongoing policy.

http://redboard.rogers.com/2010/we-l...hering-policy/

This is great news, I've used it before and it's super convenient, but haven't really got it in my mind as a permanent solution to situations because it was always going to go away.. Now I don't have to worry!

One thing that Rogers/Fido has done that makes me happy.

[BlackArcher101]

AWESOME!!!!

Now I just need to start using it. On that note, how do I thether on a BB9000?

[Russic]

Very very cool news.

[ma-skis.com]

shame i only have a 500 mb plan... i barely get to 100 in a month

[metallicat]

So how do I do this tethering? I have a Mac.

[photon]

http://derickng.com/posts/131-how-to...tooth-on-a-mac

[Phathoe]

Would it be worth it to get a large data plan and use a tethered smartphone as a source for internet at home?

[photon]

If all you do is get email and browse the odd website maybe, but it's still not all that fast.

And keep in mind that while it requires quite a bit of work to use up 1GB of data on a phone, it would be MUCH easier to use that in one month on a computer.

Heck a game demo download can be far past 1GB.

[Ryan Coke]

Originally Posted by ma-skis.com

shame i only have a 500 mb plan... i barely get to 100 in a month

There is a way to tether on a 500mb plan, and it doesn't even require jailbreaking. Try googling it.

I use mine a fair bit when I am in hotels, and the speed surprised me, certainly better than many hotels. And the only time I have problems using too much data is when I try to watch a Flames game via iphone tethering.

[FanIn80]

Awesome news. Very cool!

http://www.rogers.com/web/content/wi...09-_-tethering