[olug] [OT] Cell phone carrier questions...

[Luke-Jr]

On Friday, April 08, 2011 9:56:50 pm T. J. Brumfield wrote:
> That is true to an extent. My wife has a rooted Android phone with the
> Cynanogen mod providing the wifi for this very email. However AT&T claims
> they can tell when jailbroken iPhones do tethering and they force those
> users into paid tethering plans. The assumption is they just target phone
> users with massive uniterrupted blocks of data usage.

I would guess they just do traffic analysis, and assume you're tethering if 
you have traffic unreasonable for a phone.