AT&T’s head of the wireless and consumer markets division Ralph de la Vega said Thursday that the company was working on a new service that would let Apple iPhone owners use their devices as a modem for their laptop computers. He was responding to a question from the press at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.
A spokesman for AT&T declined to provide more details, but confirmed that “we’re working on that application with Apple and hope to make it available soon.”
AT&T currently offers a similar feature for users of Research in Motion’s Blackberry device for an extra $30 a month.
Though the two companies have been rumored to be working on this feature, de la Vega’s statement is the first official confirmation that it’s doing so. A spokesman for Apple didn’t immediately return a call for comment.
source:http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2008/11/06/apples-iphone-transforms-into-a-modem/
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