Easy solution enables free tethering for iPhone O2 iPhone

From Richard Lai's blog

This is a walkthrough of how I enabled tethering on my iPhone 3G on O2 UK. It was a lot easier than I thought - no jailbreaking needed, and all you need really is a MobileConfig file, which is essentially what O2 wants to charge you for £15 min per month!

Of course, even though the O2 iPhone contract claims to offer unlimited data download, there is still the fair use policy, so just be careful with how you use your tethering i.e. don't go watching YouTube or BBC iPlayer!

Also, note that the tethering option on the iPhone is only available if you're using it with an official iPhone carrier.


Quick and easy way: use your iPhone to visit http://help.benm.at , choose your carrier, install the profile and go to Step 3 more

Screenshot of my iPhone 3G:

iPhone Dev Team releasing 3G/3.0 unlock Friday

The iPhone-Dev Team - developers of successive successful iPhone software-based unlocks that free up the iPhone for any carrier, is releasing the new version of its yellowsnow software, now called ultrasnow. Ultrasnow will unlock all 3G iPhones running 3.0 software - but of course not the iPhone 3G-S.

And on that note, if you are planning to buy-out your O2 contract you have until 18 June to let them know - or you will not get your new phone on launch day.

The Dev team say the 'jailbreak' - that lets you install 'unsigned' apps not available in Apple's app store - for the new 3.0 iPhone operating system update will be released today. Among other things jailbreaking your phone means you can download an application that will enable you to use tethering (iPhone as a modem for your laptop) without paying O2 £15 for the privilege. If you Jailbreak or Unlock your 3G iPhone you will not be able to update to the next software release until an unlock has again been developed.

Some AT&T iPhone 3Gs's have working MMS and tethering

AT&T in the US were not meant to be offering tethering and MMS at launch for 'system upgrade' reasons.

From Engadget

Update: Turns out the secret to enabling MMS and tethering lies buried in the carrier settings file, which happens to be the same black magic employed to roll out 3G MicroCell support a while back. Customer devices are at AT&T 4.0, but there's an AT&T 5.0 profile floating around the interwebs that turns the features on -- it's just a matter of finding it, installing it, and making sure that your account is provisioned for multimedia messaging. Thanks, everyone!

O2 charging £14.68 for tethering your iPhone

...And they are charging £14.68 for tethering - (using your phone as a modem). Customers have already paid for the 'unlimited' wifi/3G access so why are we expected to pay twice?

This is absolutely outrageous.