State’s some of the biggest wireless carriers are trying to put kibosh as a free app, which is gonna enable Google Android users to use their smartphones as modems without having to pay any of the carriers’ extra fee.
Reports from the several blogs in recent days have suggested that Android phone tethering apps which are available in the Android Market are not available for Android phones on AT&T, Verizon Wireless, and T-Mobile USA.
Sprint customers, however, still have access to many of these tethering apps from the Android Market.
Sprint customers, however, still have access to many of these tethering apps from the Android Market.
Reports first surfaced from the blog DroidLife that AT&T and Verizon Wireless handsets were unable to download the free tethering app Wireless Tether. AT&T and Verizon representatives refused to make any comments, and said that availability of the apps in the Android Market are decided by Google. It is yet unknown if Google removed the Wireless Tether app or any other free tethering app from the Android Market on the companies’ requests.
A spokesman from google disclosed no any apps were being blocked. Instead the apps were simply made unavailable for download on certain carrier networks at the request of those carriers. A carrier can request the google to make the app unavailable if the application is directly violates the terms and conditions of a usage contract, the spokesman further told.
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