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Verizon confirms Droid tethering option, hefty price tag
Verizon has confirmed that customers will have the option of connecting a laptop to their new Motorola Droid smartphones , on sale tomorrow, using the phone as a wireless modem. The carrier won't say exactly when customers can do this tethering but they are exact about what it will cost: ...
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Droid Does Tethering … For an Extra $30 Per Month
Mashable! — ... The good news is that the Droid will have a tethering option; the bad news, you’ll have to wait until next year. Network World has confirmed that tethering will be available for an extra $30 per month for most Droid users. ...

Droid Tethering on Verizon Is 30 Bucks a Month [Droid]
Gizmodo — ... , but not cheaply. The official word is that the Mobile Broadband Connect plan to tether it to a laptop will be an extra 30 bucks a month for 5GB of data, on top of the standard data plan. [Network World] ...

mocoNews Quick Hits 11.05.09
mocoNews — ... »  The Droid will have tethering capabilities for an additional fee. [Network World] ...

Verizon confirms DROID tethering cost, will ask subscribers to double-down on their data plan
Engadget — ... plan, meaning a total of $60 per month for "unlimited" data access on handset or laptop. Mind you, "unlimited" really means 5GB of data per, a total of 10 split between the two $30 plans. Glass ceilings: we hate them. Filed under: Cellphones Verizon confirms DROID tethering cost, will ask subscribers to double-down on their data plan originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Verizon confirms DROID tethering cost, will ask subscribers to double-down on their data plan
Engadget Mobile — ... atop a subscriber's voice plan, meaning a total of $60 per month for "unlimited" data access on handset or laptop. Mind you, "unlimited" really means 5GB of data per, a total of 10 split between the two $30 plans. Glass ceilings: we hate them. Verizon confirms DROID tethering cost, will ask subscribers to double-down on their data plan originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Verizon Motorola Droid Tethering Price Confirmation: It will hurt!
Phones Review — ... with your laptop it is going to be at a hefty cost, you can use the handset as a wireless modem not sure when this will all happen Network World has given some pricing details. ...

Droid Tethering Details — Double-Down of Price and Bandwidth
jkOnTheRun — ... Potential Motorola Droid owners have some good news and some bad news this morning. Let’s get the bad news out of the way first — Verizon will be charging $30 a month for tethering, which is double what the previously expected charge was. That’s about the most I’d pay for any phone tethering. But according to ...

Verizon Confirms Droid Tethering, Announces Pricing
Gearlog — ... The good news is that the wireless provider is indeed letting owner utilize their handset as a wireless modem for the computers. The bad news? It's going to cost you--$30 a month in fact. That's roughly the price of the phone normal data fees. ...

Verizon doesn’t seem to know what “unlimited” means in Droid contracts
MobileCrunch — ... Remember when you’d argue with your friends about how many of this or that you had or did, and someone would always trump you by saying they had infinity? And do you remember the inevitable retort? “Oh yeah, well I’ve got infinity plus one.” Seems someone at Verizon decided to put that childish little witticism into practice as a service plan for the droid. You see, their “unlimited” plan is, as you might expect, very limited. Five gigs of data and no tethering. ...

More information: Verizon Wireless tethering for the Motorola Droid
Google Android Blog — ... be paying a total of $60 bucks for data, but consider this — I am, along with many other users paying $60 bucks a month for the access with the MiFi. And on that note, this almost seems like a bargain. Finally, the tethering is not yet available and will remain that way until sometime in 2010. The reasoning behind the delay, at least according to a Verizon spokesperson is that “the service has to be tested on the phone so until we know it works, we don’t offer the service.” [via Network World ]

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