Verizon now cracking down on jailbreak tethering

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Submission + - Verizon now cracking down on jailbreak tethering (tekgoblin.com)

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tekgoblin

on Monday August 08, 2011 @08:09PM

tekgoblin writes: "Verizon, like AT&T has now started blocking jailbroken phones from using un-sanctioned tethering apps. Verizon will now require users to be subscribed to a mobile tethering plan to be able to use tethering at all."

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