Sprint Blocking Tethering Apps in the Android Market
Bad news for tethering fans. Apparently Sprint is following in AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon’s footsteps by blocking tethering apps in the Android Market. Now if you visit the Market and bring up certain tethering apps you’ll be greeted with a bright yellow disclaimer stating “This item is not available on your carrier.” We can’t help but wonder if this move has anything to do with Sprint’s recent network woes. Less tethering = less data usage = less network strain. Of course you could always sideload a tethering app from a developers website, but you didn’t hear that from us.
via Android Police
So much for “Open” and Sprint supporting it. That explains why I no longer can find their disclaimer for open.
Uh oh, dont like the sound of that. Just checked on my phone.. alright here still, although im not “officially” through sprint, but through one of the other services using their towers (wont say who! Ha)
That sucks, But that’s only gonna stop the uneducated novice tetherers.
…Or have a custom ROM that has tethering built-in… but you didn’t hear that from me
Got free Sprint hotspot activated on my Rom ha ha. Way better than tether anyway.
I knew this would happen..sprint has always been the little network that could,but rhis time they bit off more than they could chew,by getting the stupid overrated iphone..their network cant handle the amount of traffic..JUST LIKE AT&t…my brother got the iphone on sprint ,and you all should see how lame slow it is! It takes up to TWO minutes to download a page! Come on sprint! Improve your network!
You “ha ha” now, but now they know who you are lol