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Google bans tethering app from Android Market

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A developer is reporting that Google has banned his tethering application from the Android Market, one of the first hints that the store may not be as open as Google has promised. WiFi Tether for Root Users, an application developed by Seth Lemons and a partner, has been banned from the market for violating the developer distribution agreement. The application lets users connect their G1 Android phones via Wi-Fi to their laptops and then access the Internet from the laptop using the phone’s cellular connection. In a letter to Lemons’ partner, Google states that the application violates the developer distribution agreement. It cites a section that says Google may remove an application if it violates the device maker’s or the operator’s terms of service. The letter then points to T-Mobile’s terms of service, which expressly forbid tethering phones to a computer. T-Mobile is the only operator in the U.S. to sell an Android phone.

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Comments (4)

henke54 Story submitter ·
Quoting:After performing a mass sweep of tethering applications from the Android Market earlier this week, Google have backtracked. Rather than a total ban, their suggestion is to leave tethering software available to “users outside the T-Mobile US network”
http://androidcommunity.com/google-allowing-tethering-apps-f...
tuxchick ·
WTF why should T-Mobile even care? There is a saying that corporate American is really adult daycare. I think it's mentally ill adult daycare.
techiem2 ·
If they are like other wireless vendors, they care because they want you to buy the nice expensive Cell Modem for your laptop with the nice expensive plan that goes along with it. Instead of just using whatever access you have through your normal phone plan. Yes, stupid, but this IS the cell industry we're talking about....
Sander_Marechal ·
Quoting:WTF why should T-Mobile even care?


It's against their ToS. At least in the US. T-Mobile "forgot" to put the Dutch ToS on their website (all the phone plans ToS are there, just not the internet plan ToS). I asked them for a copy and see if it's just the US or over here as well.

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