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Tethered.

O2 - not the only iPhone carrier in the UK any more, but mine - has dropped prices for tethering your computer to the 3G network. The prices are still steep: 8 £ per month for something like 2GB. I don’t want to start to imagine the costs after that.

But they also have a “beginners tethering” service now. You can pay up to a maximum of 2 £ per day whenever you actually use it. Which is good for me since I normally don’t, sitting at home - but might want to if I am on the road. And 2 £ is still cheaper than the cheapest coffee in Starbucks.

One big question now is if this will be enabled for the iPad. I don’t think that I am alone to think that when you already have a 3G data plan you might not randomly want another one.

p.s.: Tethering speeds for surfing are more than acceptable in my test run - sitting in the middle of London, probably right under a 3G mast.