AT&T scuppers Playbook launch by blocking tethering

[Zathara]

I just newly heard about this. I guess no one here is astonished, I am certain. In fact, I think it had previously been forecasted herein. The Playbook is joining you. One surprises how Moto and RIM will fare while pitching these product or ideas to VZW? It’s really not understood. Anyone here wish to add something or have some more idea about this? Provide me more and more ideas and information about this. I always thanks to all incoming information.

[switchblade327]

I am so sick of carriers charging additional for all small stuff. I would like to have tethering so I could utilize it one time every 6 months or so. Do these truly believe I am going to cough up $50 a month so I can have the chance to do something two times a year in a pinch? I wouldn't mind a pay per exercise tethering plan or pay per use Wi-Fi hotspot plan. If someone is utilizing their playbook with their phone, why can't RIM close a contract with AT&T to delight the two appliances as one for rate reasons? It's not like I can sit down and utilize BB bridge characteristic with my macbook or my iPad. It's not like the Motorola Atrix persons can unexpectedly join their windows boxes to their Android phones utilizing that proprietary connector the Atrix utilizes to dock.

[BansiJ]

Here I just wish to add something in this case. Rationally, the device is ineffective if blocked so AT&T has to be necessitating a tethering fee to activate the device. Like their action of the Atrix, this will limit sales of the appliance. Expect even the venture to limit purchases of it while they consider the fee multiplied times gathering deployments. My individual reaction will be to just not purchase the device. And not provide AT&T my business either.

[Antonio1]

I like AT&T for the Gophone policy, but that's just because I actually don't have to deal much with AT&T. I present them money; they keep their mitts off my unlocked phone. If I ever go to a contract condition it will not at all be with AT&T. If I understand the playbook descriptions right, the Blackberry Bridge utilizes Wi-Fi to permit the playbook to read emails and utilize calendar and contacts, and so on, from the BlackBerry. It seems that, this is what is pissing off AT&T, so they are going to accuse people a tethering fee for utilizing Wi-Fi to talk with their connected BlackBerry.

[Carlos16]

RIM, forever the best friend of enterprise, has marketed Bridge as a safety feature. If an asset banker is to leave the Playbook at their favorite things unintentionally, there’s no risk of sensitive corporate information declining into the incorrect hands as the data vanishes one time the tether to their BlackBerry handset is broken down. From a security point of view it’s flawless, but from a usability standpoint it leaves a lot to be preferred.

[Odalis]

Rampant money grubbing aside, this could establish a minor tragedy for RIM, which very much needs a few nice press if the Playbook is to accomplish any decent level of market diffusion. If possible Playbook buyers are told they will have to disburse an additional $20 per month not only to tether, but to access their email, contacts and calendar, it could be an important check next to what is otherwise a solid device.