A Series of Tubes on iPhone tethering

21 June 2009 in Internet by Stilgherrian | No comments

Should iPhone users pay extra for using the device as a tethered modem? Optus thinks so — but me and A Series of Tubes presenter Richard Chirgwin don’t entirely agree. Yes, the latest edition of the podcast is online for your listening pleasure.

We also talk about YABS (yet another broadband statistic), Twitter and Iran, and of course Project TOTO. Tubes also talks to Alcatel-Lucent’s Geof Heydon about the NBN: it’s more than just a fast Internet connection.

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Tags: a series of tubes, alcatel-lucent, broadband, geof hayden, iphone, iran, nbn, optus, richard chirgwin, statistics, tehran, tethering, twitter

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