Bridge App Not Available To AT&T? Cod Files Inside
- This is so reminiscent of the old days when the cable companies and the phone companies felt that they had the right to limit the ways that you used their service with hardware that you owned.
There was a time when hooking up a splitter on your cable was illegal. There was a time when installing an extension telephone yourself was illegal. The FCC (and the CRTC in Canada) eventually stopped that nonsense, but here we are again. The same companies trying the same tricks.
Frankly I'm pretty shocked that BB Bridge includes a browser. Kudos to RIM for pushing the envelope. And a major fail to AT&T. I'm optimistic that eventually this will all get sorted out. But it'll probably take a few years.Scooter625 likes this.04-19-11 09:34 AMLike 1 -
Of course AT&T has seemingly either decided to cripple this feature and just let people find out on their own or has completely failed to make their policy known from the beginning which is much worse in my opinion.04-19-11 09:35 AMLike 0 -
- I would highly recommend people stop calling the Bridge function tethering
as it is not tethering.
If this goes to court against ATT in some way we need to be sure
that ATT can not use your words against us.
Call it bridging or remote, but it is not in any way shape or form tethering.
Tim04-19-11 09:46 AMLike 0 - SlcCorradoBlackBerryThis sucks a lot
Edit : statated here BlackBerry App World - BlackBerry Bridge
AT&T is not a supported carrier for bridge app world page say that
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com04-19-11 09:48 AMLike 0 -
- kbz1960Doesn't MatterIf he's jailbroken maybe but AT&T is cracking down on the free tethering too but I'm guessing his point was that he could just have that one data plan for his BB and share it with his PB for free. So ditching the i4/ipad and technically a tethering plan would save him money
Nothing AT&T does should come as surprise.04-19-11 09:53 AMLike 0 - This is so reminiscent of the old days when the cable companies and the phone companies felt that they had the right to limit the ways that you used their service with hardware that you owned.
There was a time when hooking up a splitter on your cable was illegal. There was a time when installing an extension telephone yourself was illegal. The FCC (and the CRTC in Canada) eventually stopped that nonsense, but here we are again. The same companies trying the same tricks.
Frankly I'm pretty shocked that BB Bridge includes a browser. Kudos to RIM for pushing the envelope. And a major fail to AT&T. I'm optimistic that eventually this will all get sorted out. But it'll probably take a few years.04-19-11 09:55 AMLike 0 -
- kbz1960Doesn't Matter
I get unlimited internet at home for $20 a month high speed. I'm sure the wireless carriers charge more for the convince but charging 2 to 3 times the amount is highway robbery!04-19-11 10:02 AMLike 0 - 04-19-11 10:07 AMLike 0
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If I was a VZW user I wouldn't get too comfy either. If AT&T doesn't change or figure a way to charge for the bridge, I'm thinking it will be included with tethering then look for VZW to do the same in the future.
Still I could see a carrier breaking the bridge browser but the PIM stuff that's a shame.04-19-11 10:16 AMLike 0 - Several people here keep saying that they understand why AT&T did this. I don't. I would understand if AT&T was able to block only the browser/internet sharing portion of Bridge, but not the entire Bridge application. If AT&T is attempting to lock down internet sharing, they have succeeded in locking down one of the biggest features of the PlayBook: a live connection to PIM data on a BlackBerry phone.04-19-11 10:17 AMLike 0
- Your BB may work different than the ones I have used and currently have but I can write e-mails on my BB handset and without and radio coverage they will not be sent until I am back in coverage. So writing the same e-mail via bridge on your handset on a plane would be no different than writing it on your device. The e-mail would be saved and sent when coverage is restored. So a native app is available. The BB handset has native E-mail and PIM and the Playbook accesses these via the bridge and not have wifi or cellular access does not as far as I can tell preclude you from accessing and using these native apps on your BB handset. The distinction being Cell and wifi radio is not how the BB Bridge connects but rather via Bluetooth.04-19-11 10:18 AMLike 0
- Several people here keep saying that they understand why AT&T did this. I don't. I would understand if AT&T was able to block only the browser/internet sharing portion of Bridge, but not the entire Bridge application. If AT&T is attempting to lock down internet sharing, they have succeeded in locking down one of the biggest features of the PlayBook: a live connection to PIM data on a BlackBerry phone.04-19-11 10:24 AMLike 0
- I have successfully downloaded OTA the Blackberry Bridge from the link on Crackberry's News page found here. http://crackberry.com/att-blackberry-bridge-download
It seems to work fine so far but I dont have a playbook to test it on. Does anyone have this downloaded and fully working with a playbook?04-19-11 10:25 AMLike 0 - I have successfully downloaded OTA the Blackberry Bridge from the link on Crackberry's News page found here. http://crackberry.com/att-blackberry-bridge-download
It seems to work fine so far but I dont have a playbook to test it on. Does anyone have this downloaded and fully working with a playbook?04-19-11 10:31 AMLike 0
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