An internal AT&T document reveals that tethering might be allowed on an iPhone, meaning the use of the iPhone as a modem. It is unknown whether this is a flaw in design or it was left there for a specific reason.
This document comes from Boy Genius Report's informants, and is targeting customer service staff of Apple. it mentions the concept of teathering quite a few times.
The paper alleges that customers who try to tether the device to a computer are asked to accept a new-year cntract regardless of any pre-exsiting agreements. This problem has been known long by AT&T and they will reset the contract's start date for the customers affected by this problem.
"Please advise all customers that to complete the tethering process of their new iPhone they will be required to accept a new two-year agreement including the [Terms and Conditions]." the message reads. "However, their agreement will not be extended from their original iPhone activation or upgrade date."
AT&T meaning is unclear since reference to tethering might mean some stage in iTunes activation, or users upgrading to 16GB iPhone. However the way tethering is used is quite unusual. Tethering essentially means, that you can use cell phone as a modem for you laptop or PDA through cabels or wirelessly.
Apples has not announced any plans to offer data tethering for the iPhone. Such feature would be useful by frequent without reliable sources of Internet access, and it was requsted fron Apple by some of its current and future customers.
Apple said that is aware of the issue regardless of its exact nature
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